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 4 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ellerton Priory, Swaledale, from the Downholme Road 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ellerton Priory, Swaledale, from the Downholme Road’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
Ellerton Priory, Swaledale, from the Downholme Road 1816
D11473
Turner Bequest CXLVII 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 206 mm
Watermarked ‘[WHA]TMAN | [18]14’
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘279’ bottom right and ‘20’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CXLVII 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ellerton Priory stands above the south bank of the River Swale about three quarters of a mile east of Marrick Priory. It was founded around 1200 as a community of Cistercian nuns, and was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1537. Only the tower and walls of a fifteenth-century church now remain visible above ground, situated on private land. This sketch records the view up Swaledale from the east on the by-road to Downholme.
On the same tour, Turner sketched a similar view and another from a more distant, northerly aspect in the Yorkshire 2 sketchbook (Tate D11238, D11234; Turner Bequest CXLV 119, 117).
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David Hill
February 2009

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Ellerton Priory, Swaledale, from the Downholme Road 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-ellerton-priory-swaledale-from-the-downholme-road-r1143608, accessed 14 December 2024.