Rievaulx Abbey (the Small plate, with the Bridge)

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Artist/Maker	Turner, Joseph Mallord William (artist) Joseph Clayton Bentley (engraver)
Place of origin	Britain (engraved)

Line engraving on steel, printed on paper, depicting Rievaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire

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Categories	Prints Printed Pages & Sheets
Object type	Print
Titles	Rievaulx Abbey (the Small plate, with the Bridge) (assigned by artist) 'The Gallery of Modern British Artists' (1834-36) (series title)
Materials and techniques	Line engraving Paper Line Engraving
Brief description	Line engraving on steel by J. C. Bentley depicting Rievaulx Abbey, after a drawing by J. M. W. Turner, for a publication entitled 'The Gallery of Modern British Artists' (1834-36). Great Britain, 1836.
Physical description	Line engraving on steel, printed on paper, depicting Rievaulx Abbey in North Yorkshire
Credit line	Bequeathed by Horace Mummery
Subjects depicted	Abbeys Ruins
Places depicted	Rievaulx Yorkshire
Bibliographic reference	Rievaulx was one of the first Cistercian abbeys to be founded in England. Surrounded by a massive agricultural and industrial estate, staffed by lay brothers, it was intended as the focus of a substantial family of daughter houses throughout northern Britain. Suppressed in 1538, the existing monastic ironworks was developed by new owners, the earls of Rutland. Incorporated into the parkland of Duncombe Park, the shattered abbey ruins became a popular subject for Romantic artists in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Other number	R571 - Rawlinson number (Mummery Bequest)
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.4541-1946

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O603629/rievaulx-abbey-the-small-plate-print-turner-joseph-mallord/

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