'Detail of a Moulding at St Albans Abbey', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Detail of a Moulding at St Albans Abbey

From Hertfordshire and Middlesex

Date 1793

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 207 x 178 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D40333

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Detail of a Moulding at St Albans Abbey 1793

D40333

Pencil on white wove paper, 207 x 178 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

This partly erased drawing, not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue,1 is no doubt an architectural detail from the Abbey at St Albans; see also the recto (D00385; Turner Bequest XXIII K).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1

See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.38.

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

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