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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800 > South Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner St David's: The Ruins of St Mary's Chapel and the Entrance to Bishop Vaughan's Chapel 1795

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St David's: The Ruins of St Mary's Chapel and the Entrance to Bishop Vaughan's Chapel’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Recto:
St David’s: The Ruins of St Mary’s Chapel and the Entrance to Bishop Vaughan’s Chapel 1795
D00590
Turner Bequest XXVI 37
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 264 x 203 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bishops Vaughan [sic] Chapel’ [Finberg’s ‘St Davids’ no longer visible] bottom right and ‘37’ top right
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 37’ bottom right
The great square tower of the cathedral with its pinnacles of c.1500 is visible in the top right corner of this view, which records the state of the building prior to its restoration by John Nash and, later, by Giles Gilbert Scott.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘734’; and in a later hand in pencil ‘43’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘St David’s: The Ruins of St Mary’s Chapel and the Entrance to Bishop Vaughan’s Chapel 1795 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-davids-the-ruins-of-st-marys-chapel-and-the-entrance-to-r1140917, accessed 20 April 2024.