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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kirkstall Abbey: The Tower Seen from the East 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kirkstall Abbey: The Tower Seen from the East’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Kirkstall Abbey: The Tower Seen from the East 1797
D00920
Turner Bequest XXXIV 14
Pencil on white wove paper, 270 x 210 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘14’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXIV 14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For further studies made at Kirkstall, see under folio 11 recto (D00916; Turner Bequest XXXIV 10a).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Kirkstall Abbey: The Tower Seen from the East 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kirkstall-abbey-the-tower-seen-from-the-east-r1150076, accessed 10 May 2024.