Joseph Mallord William Turner

St Agatha’s Abbey, Easby: The North End of the Refectory

1797

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: North of England Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 210 × 270 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D00930
Turner Bequest XXXIV 24

Catalogue entry

The subject is drawn with the page turned horizontally. Finberg listed the subject tentatively, but later, with corroboration from Turner scholar C.F. Bell,1 concluded that the subject is indeed Easby, a mile downstream from Richmond on the River Swale. Another view of the abbey is on folio 26 recto (D00931; Turner Bequest XXXIV 25).

A.J. Finberg, undated MS notes in a copy of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, vol.I, p.70; C.F. Bell, undated MS notes in another copy at the same location, vol.II, p.70.

Verso:

Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

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