This view, looking into the north Transept, is one of the views of Salisbury commissioned from Turner by Colt Hoare in about 1795 as illustrations for a history of Wiltshire which never appeared. A list of twenty Salisbury subjects, written out in Colt Hoare's own hand, is among Turner's papers, T.B.CCCLXVIII-A. This includes ten of the cathedral, though none of the titles clearly refers to the present view. A drawing of ‘The Close Gate' was shown at the R.A. in I796 (369) and is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; the 'Choir' and 'North Porch' appeared in 1797 (R.A. 450, 517); the 'Inside of the Chapter House' (now Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester) and 'West Front’ (now Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston) in 1799 (R.A. 327, 335). Another view of the Chapter House was shown in 1801 (R.A. 415) and is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, which also owns a view of the Cloisters. A general view of the cathedral from the Bishop's Garden is at Birmingham City Art Gallery. Two pencil studies of the exterior of the cathedral occur in the 'Isle of Wight' sketchbook of 1795 (ff.16, 17; see No.18) which also has a short note of a commission:
Salisbury Porch - | Sr Richard Hoare
Front of Salisbury | Size of Ely.13

The ‘Ely' referred to here may have been one of the large interiors (see No.13), or perhaps the view of the cathedral from the south which was in the family of Colt Hoare and on the market 1974, based on a sketch T.B.XX-Y.