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 5 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sawley Abbey, near Clitheroe 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sawley Abbey, near Clitheroe’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Verso:
Sawley Abbey, near Clitheroe 1816
D11558
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 21a
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘G’, ‘B G’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the left half of a double-page spread, continued to the right on folio 41 recto (D11559; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 22, now bound opposite), depicting Sawley Abbey in a view looking up the River Ribble from the south near Beck House. Turner sketched other views of Sawley in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11336, D11337; Turner Bequest CXLV 169a, 170a).
Sawley Abbey lies between Clitheroe and Skipton. It was founded in 1147 for a community of Cistercian monks, and dissolved in 1536 by Henry VIII. Only a few parts of the church and cloister remain visible.

David Hill
May 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Sawley Abbey, near Clitheroe 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-sawley-abbey-near-clitheroe-r1143732, accessed 18 September 2024.