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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Westminster Abbey from St James's Park, London 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Westminster Abbey from St James's Park, London’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
Westminster Abbey from St James’s Park, London 1796–7
D01163
Turner Bequest XXXVII 46
Pencil and white chalk on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 46’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The composition continues across folio 24 recto opposite (D01164; Turner Bequest XXXVII 47).

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Westminster Abbey from St James’s Park, London 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-westminster-abbey-from-st-jamess-park-london-r1149855, accessed 26 April 2024.