J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kirkstall Abbey from Bramley Fall Lock 1809

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kirkstall Abbey from Bramley Fall Lock’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Kirkstall Abbey from Bramley Fall Lock 1809
D12256
Turner Bequest CLV 15
Pencil on white wove paper, 186 x 231 mm (top and bottom left corners missing)
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘15’, bottom right
Stamped in black in ‘CLV 15’, bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
One of six Kirkstall subjects from this sketchbook, this sketch records a distant view of Kirkstall Abbey from the west, at Bramley Fall Lock on the Leeds to Liverpool Canal, with the River Aire below to the left.
For the Leeds to Liverpool Canal in this sketchbook see D12257; Turner Bequest CLV 16; and for Kirkstall Abbey see D12254; Turner Bequest CLV 13.
Verso:
Not visible since stuck down, but possibly inscribed by ?one of the Executors of the Turner Bequest in pencil ?‘Sched 164.2’. The majority of pages from this sketchbook are similarly inscribed (for the significance of this see notes to D12241, D12244; Turner Bequest CLV 2, 4a).

David Hill
June 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Kirkstall Abbey from Bramley Fall Lock 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kirkstall-abbey-from-bramley-fall-lock-r1134668, accessed 26 April 2024.