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 41 Recto:
Sawley Abbey, near Clitheroe 1816
D11559
Turner Bequest CXLVIII 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 173 x 260 mm
Stamped in black ‘TB CXLVIII 22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread, continued from folio 40 verso (D11558; Turner Bequest CXLVIII 21a, 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).
For Sawley Abbey see D11558.

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-r1143733, accessed 26 April 2024.