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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Malmesbury Abbey: The Ruins from the North-West, with Cottages in the Foreground 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Malmesbury Abbey: The Ruins from the North-West, with Cottages in the Foreground’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
Malmesbury Abbey: The Ruins from the North-West, with Cottages in the Foreground 1798
D01251
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 2
Pencil on white wove paper, 229 x 332 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII 2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is one of a sequence of twelve drawings of Malmesbury in this book; see under folio 2 recto (D01252; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 3).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Malmesbury Abbey: The Ruins from the North-West, with Cottages in the Foreground 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-malmesbury-abbey-the-ruins-from-the-north-west-with-cottages-r1173143, accessed 25 April 2024.