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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ground Plan of Fountains Abbey 1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ground Plan of Fountains Abbey’ 1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Recto:
A Ground Plan of Fountains Abbey 1816
D09837
Turner Bequest CXXXIV 42
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Garden’, ‘Chapter’, ‘Cloister[?s]’ and ‘Refectory’ below centre, and ‘Abbots | Lodge’ bottom left within plan
Stamped in black ‘CXXXIV – 42’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg was right to suggest this as a plan of Fountains Abbey,1 although it is very slight and rather inaccurate, almost as though done from memory or by an amateur companion of the artist’s (conceivably a member of Walter Fawkes’s Yorkshire household; see the sketchbook’s Introduction). There is a rather more detailed version on folio 41 recto (D09838; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 43).
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Finberg 1909, I, p.382.
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Matthew Imms
July 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Ground Plan of Fountains Abbey 1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-ground-plan-of-fountains-abbey-r1147398, accessed 25 April 2024.