Detail of j. M. W. Turner's 1816 painting leeds, showing holbeck. Viewed looking northwards from beeston hill, the white tower belongs to st paul's church (demolished 1905) on the far side of the river aire. Below the tower stands marshall's mill in holbeck, and to its right, the chimney emitting black smoke, is fenton and murray’s foundry. Below the foundry, with a black chimney, stands holbeck moor mill. The two-storey building below and to the right of the mill is holbeck workhouse. Identifications based on the tate gallery catalogue record for the drawing on which this painting is based: matthew imms, ‘leeds from beeston hill 1816 by joseph mallord william turner’, catalogue entry, july 2014, in david blayney brown (ed. ), j. M. W. Turner: sketchbooks, drawings and watercolours, tate research publication, september 2014, https://www. Tate. Org. Uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-leeds-from-beeston-hill-r1147408, accessed 29 april 2019.
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