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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Whitby: The Abbey, Parish Church and Part of the Harbour Seen from the Sea 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Whitby: The Abbey, Parish Church and Part of the Harbour Seen from the Sea’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Recto:
Whitby: The Abbey, Parish Church and Part of the Harbour Seen from the Sea 1801

D02753
Turner Bequest LIV 87
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘87’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LIV 87’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 86 verso opposite (D02752). A long sequence of sketches on the Yorkshire coast between Scarborough and Whitby runs between folios 83 verso and 98 verso (D02746–D02776).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Whitby: The Abbey, Parish Church and Part of the Harbour Seen from the Sea 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-whitby-the-abbey-parish-church-and-part-of-the-harbour-seen-r1178939, accessed 26 April 2024.