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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 3 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Coverham Abbey and Church, Looking West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coverham Abbey and Church, Looking West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Coverham Abbey and Church, Looking West 1816
D11402
Turner Bequest CXLVI 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 200 mm
Watermarked ‘[SA]LMON | [1]809’
Inscribed by an unknown hand in blue ink ‘22’ top right and ‘330’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CXLVI 22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the second page of a two-page drawing continued to the right from folio 21 recto (D11400). Turner sketched the same material on the same visit from a nearer viewpoint in the Yorkshire 1 sketchbook (Tate D10952; Turner Bequest CXLIV 46a).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Coverham Abbey and Church, Looking West 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-coverham-abbey-and-church-looking-west-r1143530, accessed 10 May 2024.