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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Lincluden Collegiate Church, Near Dumfries 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lincluden Collegiate Church, Near Dumfries’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Verso:
Lincluden Collegiate Church, Near Dumfries 1831
D25868
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 54a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This detailed sketch, made with the book inverted, shows the choir of Lincluden Collegiate Church looking east towards the large gothic window. Just to the left of the window is the tomb of Princess Margaret, daughter of King Robert III of Scotland.
For more information on Turner’s sketches of Lincluden see folio 53 verso (D25866).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Lincluden Collegiate Church, Near Dumfries 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, 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-lincluden-collegiate-church-near-dumfries-r1134235, accessed 16 April 2024.