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 Verso:
West Tanfield Church, Marmion Tower and Bridge 1816
D10949
Turner Bequest CXLIV 44a
Pencil on white wove paper, 97 x 154 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Chimney on the N 4th Battlements’, with a small detail of the same
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is taken from the River Ure, immediately west of the Marmion Tower, with the church tower almost completely hidden behind, and the bridge to the right. It is a closer view from a similar angle to that on the previous double-page spread, running across folios 43 verso to the recto of the present leaf (D10947–D10948). The Yorkshire 3 sketchbook, which Turner used on the same tour, has a sketch of West Tanfield Bridge from the opposite side, looking upstream (Tate D11395; Turner Bequest CXLVI 16a). Details of the projecting window on the east face, the church tower and the east windows of the church, top right, relate to the sketch in the Yorkshire 3 sketchbook, rather than to those here.
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-r1144137, accessed 19 April 2024.