Joseph Mallord William Turner

?Armley Church, near Leeds; Calculations

c.1824

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Brighton and Arundel Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 75 × 118 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D18401
Turner Bequest CCX 54

Catalogue entry

These cursory and swiftly rendered jottings show a church tower and a landscape with low-lying hills. The church may be St Bartholomew’s at Armley, near Kirkstall Abbey (see Tate D18395, D18400; Turner Bequest CCX 51, 53a). Given that St Bartholomew’s was remodeled in 1825 and 1872, it stands today in a markedly altered form to that possibly pictured in this sketch.1
Turner has also inscribed the following calculation, possibly a calculation of expenditure, at top left:
‘2 6
6
6
6
4 6
1 6’

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

1
‘A short history’, St Bartholomew’s, Armley, accessed 25 February 2015, http://www.armley-schulze.co.uk/Church_Hist.htm

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