'St David's: The Ruins of St Mary's Chapel and the Entrance to Bishop Vaughan's Chapel', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

St David's: The Ruins of St Mary's Chapel and the Entrance to Bishop Vaughan's Chapel

From South Wales Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XXVI

Date 1795

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 264 x 203 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D00590

Turner Bequest XXVI 37

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Turner's sketchbooks

View this artwork in the South Wales Sketchbook

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 37 Recto:

St David’s: The Ruins of St Mary’s Chapel and the Entrance to Bishop Vaughan’s Chapel 1795

D00590
Turner Bequest XXVI 37

Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 264 x 203 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bishops Vaughan [sic] Chapel’ [Finberg’s ‘St Davids’ no longer visible] bottom right and ‘37’ top right
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 37’ bottom right

Exhibition history

References

The great square tower of the cathedral with its pinnacles of c.1500 is visible in the top right corner of this view, which records the state of the building prior to its restoration by John Nash and, later, by Giles Gilbert Scott.

Verso:

Blank; inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘734’; and in a later hand in pencil ‘43’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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.