'The Porch of Great Malvern Priory', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

The Porch of Great Malvern Priory

From Watercolours and Studies Relating to the Welsh and Marches Tours

Date 1793

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 419 x 508 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D00149

Turner Bequest XIII D

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

The Porch of Great Malvern Priory 1793

D00149
Turner Bequest XIII D

Pencil on white wove paper, 419 x 508 mm
Stamped in black ‘XIII D’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

This is a tracing or schematic enlargement, presumably for the watercolour exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1794 (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester).1 Compare Tate D00154 (Turner Bequest XIV A), which is on similar paper. See also a possibly slightly earlier tracing, Tate D00150 (Turner Bequest XIII E). A study of the porch alone, evidently made on the 1793 tour, is in the Lloyd Bequest, British Museum, London (1958–7–12–391).2

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.306 no.49, reproduced.

Kim Sloan, J.M.W.Turner: Watercolours from the R.W. Lloyd Bequest to the British Museum, London 1998, p.36 no.1(a), reproduced p.[37].

Technical notes:

The sheet has been folded in half vertically.

Verso:

Blank

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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