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 1 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner West Tanfield Church, Marmion Tower and Bridge 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘West Tanfield Church, Marmion Tower and Bridge’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
West Tanfield Church, Marmion Tower and Bridge 1816
D10948
Turner Bequest CXLIV 44
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 97 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sand’ in the river, right
Trace of inscription in red ink, possibly by John Ruskin, ‘44’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXLIV 44’ 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 43 verso (D10947), opposite, recording the view looking east down the River Ure to West Tanfield, the tower of Tanfield Church, the Marmion Tower immediately to the right, and the bridge beyond. The ensemble survives almost unchanged. A closer view from a similar aspect follows on the verso (D10949); this also includes architectural details related to features visible in this sketch.
The Yorkshire 3 sketchbook, which Turner used on the same tour in 1816, has a sketch of West Tanfield Bridge from the opposite side, looking upstream (Tate D11395; Turner Bequest CXLVI 16a).
For West Tanfield in the present sketchbook see folio 43 verso (D10947).

David Hill
January 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘West Tanfield Church, Marmion Tower and Bridge 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-west-tanfield-church-marmion-tower-and-bridge-r1144136, accessed 19 April 2024.