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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Albans: Details of Mouldings and Buttress on the West Porch of the Abbey 1793

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Albans: Details of Mouldings and Buttress on the West Porch of the Abbey’ 1793
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
St Albans: Details of Mouldings and Buttress on the West Porch of the Abbey 1793
D00346
Turner Bequest XXI S
Pencil on white wove paper, 223 x 274 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘? XXI-S’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXI S’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Like Tate D00345 (Turner Bequest XXI R), this is a scrappy drawing, though the details are handled with more assurance than in that sheet. This suggests that both, despite their hesitancy, are Turner’s work. For St Albans see also Tate D00385, D00387, D01100 and D01893 (Turner Bequest XXIII K, M, XXXVI F, XLIV Q).
Technical notes:
The sheet is slightly irregular.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘St Albans: Details of Mouldings and Buttress on the West Porch of the 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-st-albans-details-of-mouldings-and-buttress-on-the-west-r1140277, accessed 25 April 2024.