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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 4 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner St Agatha's Abbey, Easby, from the West 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Agatha's Abbey, Easby, from the West’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
St Agatha’s Abbey, Easby, from the West 1816
D11475
Turner Bequest CXLVII 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 206 mm
Watermarked ‘[WHA]TMAN | [18]14’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Cattle’, ‘Splay [?]’, bottom left; ‘Gate’, bottom centre
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘279’ bottom right and ‘22’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVII 22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner here records the view of St Agatha’s Abbey, Easby, from the west, returning towards Richmond. The subject is continued to the left in a few pencil marks on folio 21 verso opposite (D40841). For the abbey see folio 21 recto (D11474).
Turner sketched similar views in the Yorkshire 2 and Yorkshire 5 sketchbooks (Tate D11225–D11226; Turner Bequest CXLV 112a–113, and Tate D11546; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 14a), which accompanied him on the same tour.
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David Hill
February 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘St Agatha’s Abbey, Easby, from the West 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-st-agathas-abbey-easby-from-the-west-r1143611, accessed 10 May 2024.