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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kirkstall Abbey Seen through Trees 1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Kirkstall Abbey Seen through Trees’ 1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
Kirkstall Abbey Seen through Trees 1808
D07267
Turner Bequest CVII 10
Pencil on white wove paper, 109 x 186 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘10’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CVII 10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Hill notes that folios 10–13 (see also D07268–D07270) depict the abbey ‘from the road above to the north and east’.
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David Blayney Brown
July 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Kirkstall Abbey Seen through Trees 1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-kirkstall-abbey-seen-through-trees-r1135927, accessed 22 November 2024.