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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Calder Abbey: Tower and West Door 1809

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Calder Abbey: Tower and West Door’ 1809
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
Calder Abbey: Tower and West Door 1809
D07573
Turner Bequest CX 32
Pencil on white laid paper, 116 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘32’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CX 32’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Calder Abbey see note to folio 31 of the sketchbook (D07572). This closer drawing is of the tower and Norman door; the remains of the nave are, curiously, hardly shown. Along with the drawing, Warburton illustrates his own photograph of the view today.

David Blayney Brown
August 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Calder Abbey: Tower and West Door 1809 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-calder-abbey-tower-and-west-door-r1135689, accessed 19 April 2024.