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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Detail of a Moulding at St Albans Abbey 1793

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Detail of a Moulding at St Albans Abbey’ 1793
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Detail of a Moulding at St Albans Abbey 1793
D40333
Pencil on white wove paper, 207 x 178 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This partly erased drawing, not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue,1 is no doubt an architectural detail from the Abbey at St Albans; see also the recto (D00385; Turner Bequest XXIII K).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.38.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Detail of a Moulding at St Albans Abbey 1793 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-detail-of-a-moulding-at-st-albans-abbey-r1140275, accessed 24 April 2024.