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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rievaulx Abbey: General View of the Valley from the West, with the Terrace Beyond 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rievaulx Abbey: General View of the Valley from the West, with the Terrace Beyond’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 106 Verso:
Rievaulx Abbey: General View of the Valley from the West, with the Terrace Beyond 1801
D02792
Turner Bequest LIV 106a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 164 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. The Terrace at Rievaulx was created by Thomas Duncombe in1758, rivalling the slightly earlier garden at Duncombe Park nearby. It consists of two ‘temples’ at either end of a grass promenade with extensive views over the Ryedale Valley and the site of Rievaulx.
Rievaulx was to form the subject of several of Turner’s later works; for his studies in this sketchbook, see under folios 1 recto and 102 verso (D02614, D02784).
Technical notes:
The leaf was not washed with the mauve-pink ground of the remainder of the book; other exceptions are folios 1, 4 and 107 (D02614, D02619–D02620, D02793–D02794).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rievaulx Abbey: General View of the Valley from the West, with the Terrace Beyond 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-rievaulx-abbey-general-view-of-the-valley-from-the-west-with-r1178978, accessed 24 April 2024.