J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Wey, Guildford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Willows by a River, a Ruined Building in the Distance to the Left: ?Ankerwycke Priory 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Willows by a River, a Ruined Building in the Distance to the Left: ?Ankerwycke Priory’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 121 Verso:
Willows by a River, a Ruined Building in the Distance to the Left: ?Ankerwycke Priory 1805
D06328
Turner Bequest XCVIII 121a
Pencil on white laid paper, 182 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, and continued to the right on folio 122 (D06329). Hill’s suggestion of Ankerwycke is convincing as the site, near Wraysbury, is close to Windsor of which Turner – if working backwards through the sketchbook – completed a series of views on folios 122 verso–123 (D06330–D06331).

David Blayney Brown
July 2008

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Willows by a River, a Ruined Building in the Distance to the Left: ?Ankerwycke Priory 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-willows-by-a-river-a-ruined-building-in-the-distance-to-the-r1130512, accessed 19 September 2024.