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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sluice Gates near Kirkstall Abbey 1809

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sluice Gates near Kirkstall Abbey’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Sluice Gates near Kirkstall Abbey 1809
D12254
Turner Bequest CLV 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 186 x 231 mm (top and bottom left corners missing)
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in red ink ‘13’, bottom right
Stamped in black in ‘CLV 13’, bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
One of six Kirkstall subjects from this sketchbook, this sketch records a view of the sluice gates on the River Aire to the south-east of Kirkstall Abbey at the take-off for Kirkstall Mill. Finberg does not appear to have noticed the tower of Kirkstall Abbey given faintly beyond the tree at the right.
Kirkstall Abbey stands on the banks of the River Aire about three miles west of the centre of Leeds. It was founded in 1152 for a community of Cistercian monks and was dissolved in 1539. It stands now in a public park.
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil (?by one of the executors of the Turner Bequest) in pencil ‘Sched 164.4’. The majority of pages in this sketchbook are similarly inscribed (for the significance of this see notes to Tate D12241, D12244; Turner Bequest CLV 2, 4a).

David Hill
June 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Sluice Gates near Kirkstall Abbey 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sluice-gates-near-kirkstall-abbey-r1134666, accessed 26 April 2024.