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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Barden Tower 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
Barden Tower 1816
D09881
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 77a
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘115’ right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Barden Tower and the chapel south of it are seen to the north-east from Wharfedale. The buildings are now obscured from this side by a wood along the river bank. For further views of the tower see under folio 15 verso (D09860; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 59a).
The recto (D09880) is one of eight drawings from this sketchbook lent to Oxford University in the nineteenth century (for the others see the sketchbook’s Introduction). As in the present case, each has a large pencil number inscribed on the back which presumably relates to this loan, although they do not tally with the Oxford catalogue numbers.

Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Barden Tower 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-barden-tower-r1147377, accessed 24 April 2024.