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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Armley Church, near Leeds; Calculations c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Armley Church, near Leeds; Calculations’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 60 Recto:
?Armley Church, near Leeds; Calculations c.1824
D18401
Turner Bequest CCX 54
Pencil on white wove paper, 75 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?A Leeds]’ top centre and a calculation transcribed in full in the main catalogue entry
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘54’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCX–54’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These cursory and swiftly rendered jottings show a church tower and a landscape with low-lying hills. The church may be St Bartholomew’s at Armley, near Kirkstall Abbey (see Tate D18395, D18400; Turner Bequest CCX 51, 53a). Given that St Bartholomew’s was remodeled in 1825 and 1872, it stands today in a markedly altered form to that possibly pictured in this sketch.1
Turner has also inscribed the following calculation, possibly a calculation of expenditure, at top left:
‘2 6
6
6
6
4 6
1 6’

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2015

1
‘A short history’, St Bartholomew’s, Armley, accessed 25 February 2015, http://www.armley-schulze.co.uk/Church_Hist.htm

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Armley Church, near Leeds; Calculations c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-armley-church-near-leeds-calculations-r1181288, accessed 25 April 2024.