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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Herstmonceux and Pevensey Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Interior of a Medieval Building c.1806-10

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Interior of a Medieval Building’ c.1806-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 81 Recto:
Interior of a Medieval Building circa 1806–10
D05698
Turner Bequest XCI 81
Pencil and white chalk on cream wove paper, prepared with a buff wash, 128 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘81’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XCI 81’ bottom left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See note to folio 78 of the sketchbook (D05695) for past identifications of Bodiam Castle. For the castle in this sketchbook see notes to folio 67 (D05684). Probably the same vaulted cellar or undercroft drawn on folio 80 (D05697) this might belong to the Monk’s House at Robertsbridge Abbey, which has a very similar room better preserved than any at Bodiam, which was ruinous and overgrown in Turner’s time. For exterior views of the abbey, see folios 64–66 (D05681–D05683).
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David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Interior of a Medieval Building c.1806–10 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, 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-interior-of-a-medieval-building-r1131009, accessed 19 April 2024.