Original steel engraving, hand-colored, of Rievaulx Abbey, in Yorkshire, cut by J. C. Bentley after an original drawing by J. M. W. Turner. A view of the valley of the Rye with the stone bridge, a group of travellers in the foreground and the ruins beyond.
Original steel engraving, hand-colored, of Rievaulx Abbey, in Yorkshire, cut by J. C. Bentley after an original drawing by J. M. W. Turner. A view of the valley of the Rye with the stone bridge, a group of travellers in the foreground and the ruins beyond.
The Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx, founded in 1132 and ruined after the dissolution of the monasteries decreed by Henry VIII, was one of the favourite motifs of English romantic landscape. It was published in The Gallery of Modern British Artists.
Medium: Steel engraving, hand-colored.
Artist / after: J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851).
Engraver: J. C. Bentley.
Date: 1837.
Source: "The Gallery of Modern British Artists", London.
Dimensions: 8.1 x 10.2 in (20.5 x 26 cm).
Condition: Good impression; small tears and creases along the upper edge of the paper, outside the plate mark.