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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 3 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner West Portal of St Mary's Abbey, York 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘West Portal of St Mary's Abbey, York’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
West Portal of St Mary’s Abbey, York 1816
D11379
Turner Bequest CXLVI 6
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 200 mm
Watermarked ‘[SA]LMON | [1]809’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘The top’ top left
Inscribed by an unknown hand in blue ink ‘6’ top right and ‘330’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CXLVI 6’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a brief continuation to the right of the sketch on folio 5 recto (D11378) of the west portal of St Mary’s Abbey, York, to include the west front of York Minster. The view is continued further right above, across both pages.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘West Portal of St Mary’s Abbey, York 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-west-portal-of-st-marys-abbey-york-r1143506, accessed 25 April 2024.