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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Malmesbury: Near View of the Abbey Nave, Seen from the South 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Malmesbury: Near View of the Abbey Nave, Seen from the South’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio10 Recto:
Malmesbury: Near View of the Abbey Nave, Seen from the South 1798
D01256
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 7
Pencil on white wove paper, 229 x 332 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII 7’ bottom left, descending vertically
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is one of a sequence of twelve drawings of Malmesbury in the present book; see under folio 2 recto (D01252; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 3). Compare studies of the principal ruin at Malmesbury in the contemporary Dynevor Castle sketchbook (Tate D01482–D01483, D01485–D01486; Turner Bequest XL 11a–12, 13a–14).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Malmesbury: Near View of the Abbey Nave, Seen from the South 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-near-view-of-the-abbey-nave-seen-from-the-south-r1173148, accessed 25 April 2024.