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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Porch of Great Malvern Priory 1793

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Porch of Great Malvern Priory’ 1793
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Porch of Great Malvern Priory 1793
D00149
Turner Bequest XIII D
Pencil on white wove paper, 419 x 508 mm
Stamped in black ‘XIII D’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a tracing or schematic enlargement, presumably for the watercolour exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1794 (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester).1 Compare Tate D00154 (Turner Bequest XIV A), which is on similar paper. See also a possibly slightly earlier tracing, Tate D00150 (Turner Bequest XIII E). A study of the porch alone, evidently made on the 1793 tour, is in the Lloyd Bequest, British Museum, London (1958–7–12–391).2
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.306 no.49, reproduced.
2
Kim Sloan, J.M.W.Turner: Watercolours from the R.W. Lloyd Bequest to the British Museum, London 1998, p.36 no.1(a), reproduced p.[37].
Technical notes:
The sheet has been folded in half vertically.
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Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Porch of Great Malvern Priory 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-the-porch-of-great-malvern-priory-r1141178, accessed 23 April 2024.