Oil paint on canvas
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
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Turner owned by Tate
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Tynemouth Priory
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
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painting oil paint canvas
12 June 2004 – 30 August 2004
2004-08-30
12 June 2004 – 30 August 2004
2004-08-30
2004-06-12
Lady Lever Art Gallery (Port Sunlight, UK)
2004-06-12
Turner and Williamson
Loan-out
Tynemouth Priory
support: 318 × 610 mm
frame: 510 × 805 × 75 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p><b>253. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-tynemouth-priory-n03133" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03133</span></a>]<b> Tynemouth Priory c. 1820–5?</b></p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (3133)</p>
<p>Canvas, 12 1/2 × 24 (32 × 61)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856; transferred to the Tate Gallery 1935.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Ziff 1980, p. 167.</p>
<p>The subject was formerly tentatively identified as Woodspring Priory, close to the Somerset coast a few miles north of Weston-super-Mare, but has been demonstrated by Nicholas Cooper of the National Monuments Record (letter of 10 March 1976) to show Tynemouth Priory. The late twelfth-century east wall of the chancel is framed by an arch just as in the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraving</span></a> by J. Sands after T. Allom and can still be recognised today, though the extension to the left and the classical urn, added by Turner after he had already completed the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> background, may be his own invention.</p>
<p>Turner visited Tynemouth in 1797 (see the ‘North of England’ sketchbook, XXXIV-35, repr. in colour Wilkinson 1972, p. 45, and the more finished <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>water-colour</span></a> XXXIII-T) and later included Tynemouth in the <i><a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/picturesque" title="Glossary definition for 'Picturesque'"><span>Picturesque</span></a> Views in England and Wales</i> 1827–38, but no sketch related to this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> is known. Nor can the date of this very liquidly painted, almost (and unusually for Turner) Rubensian sketch be more than guessed at: the urn, delicate trees and general lack of weight recall such exhibited oils of the 1820s as <i>What You Will!</i> (R. A. 1822, No. 229) and <i>View from the Terrace of a Villa at Niton</i> (R.A. 1826; No. 234), but the picture might also be as early as the small Thames sketches on mahogany veneer of c. 1807, Nos. 177–94. Jerrold Ziff, in his review of the first edition of this catalogue, gives his ‘waivering [sic] preference’ to the later dating in the 1820s.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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arch architecture England England, North East England, Northern features places priory religious religious ruins tree Tyne and Wear Tynemouth, Tynemouth Priory UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions