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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Scotland 1834 > Edinburgh Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Church Ruins 1834

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church Ruins’ 1834
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Verso:
Church Ruins 1834
D26220
Turner Bequest CCLXVIII 64a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of five sketches in this book of an unidentified ruined church or abbey. This sketch looks down the nave to what may be the west end of the structure. The same building is depicted on folios 61 verso, 65–66 and 85 verso (D26214, D26221–D26222, D26255).

Thomas Ardill
January 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Church Ruins 1834 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 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-church-ruins-r1136148, accessed 20 September 2024.