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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of Gothic Architectural Details at Malmesbury Abbey 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of Gothic Architectural Details at Malmesbury Abbey’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Recto:
Studies of Gothic Architectural Details at Malmesbury Abbey 1798
D01606
Turner Bequest XL 84
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘84’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XL – 84’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Architectural historian Christopher Wilson has kindly confirmed that these studies show details of gothic windows and ornament at Malmesbury Abbey.1 See the entry for folio 85 verso opposite (D01605; Turner Bequest XL 83a), where the inscriptions mentioned by Finberg in his joint entry for the two pages2 are located.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Personal communication.
2
Finberg 1909, I, p.97.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Studies of Gothic Architectural Details at Malmesbury Abbey 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-studies-of-gothic-architectural-details-at-malmesbury-abbey-r1173845, accessed 26 April 2024.