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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Albans Abbey: Architectural Details c.1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Albans Abbey: Architectural Details’ c.1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
St Albans Abbey: Architectural Details c.1794
D01893
Turner Bequest XLIV Q
Pencil on white laid paper, 322 x 201 mm
Watermark: crown with ‘GR 1794’
Inscribed ‘top of leaf’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram centre
Inscribed in pencil ‘Q’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLIV – Q’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A group of slight architectural studies, executed hastily though in places with precision. Christopher Wilson has identified the top left-hand sketch as showing part of the High Altar screen, and the arcade immediately below as a detail of the South Choir aisle. Other studies of St Albans Abbey are Tate D00345, D00346, D00385, D00387 and D01100 (Turner Bequest XXI R, S, XXIII K, M, XXXVI F).
Technical notes:
The sheet has been folded laterally in three places, and is stained and dirty.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘St Albans Abbey: Architectural Details c.1794 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-abbey-architectural-details-r1140279, accessed 20 April 2024.