'Bayham Abbey', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Bayham Abbey

From Herstmonceux and Pevensey Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCI

Date c.1806-10

MediumChalk and graphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 128 x 201 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D05699

Turner Bequest XCI 82

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 82 Recto:

Bayham Abbey circa 1806–10

D05699
Turner Bequest XCI 82

Pencil on cream wove paper, prepared with a buff wash, 128 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘82’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XCI 82’ bottom left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Rather than Bodiam Castle, for which see notes to folio 67 (D05694) for drawings in this sketchbook, these ruins belong to the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Bayham Abbey of which views follow on folios 83–5 (D05700–D05702), as first observed by Edward Croft-Murray. Bayham Abbey, standing in grounds landscaped by Humphry Repton, is about two miles west of Lamberhurst.

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David Blayney Brown
March 2011

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.