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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sawley Abbey and Bridge 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sawley Abbey and Bridge’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 170 Verso:
Sawley Abbey and Bridge 1816
D11336
Turner Bequest CXLV 169a
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 154 mm
Partial watermark ‘mith | 12’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is a view of Sawley Abbey and bridge, dated by the present author to Wednesday 24 July 1816,1 when Turner travelled from Browsholme Hall to Malham. On the same occasion Turner also sketched the abbey from a more elevated viewpoint in the Yorkshire 4 sketchbook (Tate D11558–D11559; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 21a–22).

David Hill
April 2009

1
See Hill 1984, pp.39–42.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Sawley Abbey and Bridge 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sawley-abbey-and-bridge-r1201923, accessed 01 October 2025.