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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of Kirkstall Abbey c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of Kirkstall Abbey’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Views of Kirkstall Abbey c.1824
D18409
Turner Bequest CCX 58a
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...] the woods p[...]’ top left, ‘[...] abbey [...]’ centre left towards top left, ‘[?Cows]’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has rendered three views of Kirkstall Abbey, the ruins of a twelfth-century monastery situated on the River Aire near Leeds, West Yorkshire (see Tate D18390; Turner Bequest CCX 48).
These sketches are associated with Turner’s watercolour of Kirkstall Abbey produced for W.B. Cooke’s Rivers of England series (Tate D18146; Turner Bequest CCVIII M and Tate impressions T04810, T04811, T06371).1

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

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For more information see Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Kirkstall Abbey, on the River Aire 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kirkstall-abbey-on-the-river-aire-r1146210.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views of Kirkstall Abbey c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-views-of-kirkstall-abbey-r1181296, accessed 25 April 2024.