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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 3 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner West Tanfield Bridge, Church and the Marmion Tower 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘West Tanfield Bridge, Church and the Marmion Tower’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
West Tanfield Bridge, Church and the Marmion Tower 1816
D11395
Turner Bequest CXLVI 16a
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 200 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Corn’ in field to right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread, drawn inverted in relation to the main sequence of sketches, continued from folio 17 recto (D11396) opposite. It is worth observing that the time on the church clock is ten minutes past one, and that the church appears to be roofless. To the right is the continuation of a drawing from another page, possibly folio 15 verso (D11393), but that is not certain.
The Yorkshire 1 sketchbook contains sketches of West Tanfield from upstream made on the same occasion: Tate D10949; Turner Bequest CXLIV 44a has detail sketches of the projecting window on the east face of the tower, the east side of the church tower and the east windows of the church, that relate to the present sketch, rather than to the sketches in that sketchbook.

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘West Tanfield Bridge, Church and the Marmion Tower 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-tanfield-bridge-church-and-the-marmion-tower-r1143522, accessed 27 April 2024.