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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Mary's Abbey, York; the Interior of the West End 1816

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Mary's Abbey, York; the Interior of the West End’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
St Mary’s Abbey, York; the Interior of the West End 1816
D40847
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch ( not noticed or numbered by Finberg) records a view of the interior of St Mary’s Abbey, York, taken from the south aisle, looking to the angle of the inside of the west end and north wall of the nave. The tower of St Olave’s Church can be seen through the window to the right, and a pedimented building on Marygate through the west portal shown in its entirety even though only a portion would have been visible from a single viewpoint. Turner sketched the same aspect of St Mary’s from more distant viewpoints in two preceding sketches in this sketchbook, folios 24 verso–25 (D19013–D10914) and also on folio 28 verso (D10920); and sketched the exterior of the west end in the Yorkshire 3 sketchbook (Tate D11378; Turner Bequest CXLVI 5).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘St Mary’s Abbey, York; the Interior of the West End 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-st-marys-abbey-york-the-interior-of-the-west-end-r1144109, accessed 18 September 2024.