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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Continuation of King's College Chapel, Aberdeen 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Recto:
Continuation of King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen 1831
D27106
Turner Bequest CCLXXVII 44
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 163 x 49 mm variable
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘44’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXVII 44’ bottom right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This and the pages either side of it in the sketchbook (folios 43 and 45; D27105, D27107) are page stubs, evidently torn before Turner drew his sketch of King’s College Chapel in Aberdeen on folio 42 verso (D27104), which continues at the top of folio 43 and the present page.
Verso:
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Thomas Ardill
April 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Continuation of King’s College Chapel, Aberdeen 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2010, 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-continuation-of-kings-college-chapel-aberdeen-r1135472, accessed 20 April 2024.