Joseph Mallord William Turner Egglestone Abbey, Mill and Bridge, with a Distant View of Rokeby 1816
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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Recto:
Egglestone Abbey, Mill and Bridge, with a Distant View of Rokeby 1816
D11491
Turner Bequest CXLVII 31
Turner Bequest CXLVII 31
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 206 mm
Watermarked ‘[WHA]TMAN | [18]14’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Egg’ bottom right
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘279’ bottom right and ‘31’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVII 31’ bottom right
Watermarked ‘[WHA]TMAN | [18]14’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Egg’ bottom right
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘279’ bottom right and ‘31’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVII 31’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.425, CXLVII 31, as ‘“Egg” (Egglestone Abbey)’.
1979
Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, London 1979, p.365, no.565.
1980
David Hill, Stanley Warburton, Mary Tussey and others, Turner in Yorkshire, exhibition catalogue, York City Art Gallery 1980, p.86, no.136.
1984
David Hill, In Turner’s Footsteps: Through the Hills and Dales of Northern England, London 1984, pp.31, 70–1, 127.
1990
Eric Shanes, Turner’s England 1810–38, London 1990, pp.59, 283 (note 56).
1996
David Hill, Turner in the North: A Tour through Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, the Scottish Borders, the Lake District, Lancashire and Lincolnshire in the Year 1797, New Haven and London 1996, p.192 (XXXIV 90 verso).
Here Turner records the view of Egglestone Abbey (for which see folio 30 verso; D11490) from outside the former Canon’s Dorter, looking down the River Tees, with Egglestone Mill below to the left, the castellation of Abbey Bridge in the further distance, right, and the square profile of Rokeby Park in the distance along the line of the river. Turner revisits almost exactly the same viewpoint as a sketch made in 1797 in the North of England sketchbook (Tate D40565; Turner Bequest XXXIX 90 verso).
David Hill
February 2009
How to cite
David Hill, ‘Egglestone Abbey, Mill and Bridge, with a Distant View of Rokeby 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www