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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fonthill Abbey: Distant View with the River Nadder 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fonthill Abbey: Distant View with the River Nadder’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Verso:
Fonthill Abbey: Distant View with the River Nadder 1799
D01687
Turner Bequest XLII 12
Pencil and black and white chalk on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 12’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 7 recto opposite (D01688; Turner Bequest XLII 13), though Finberg confusingly suggested there are two views, with the other page showing a ‘View of Fonthill Abbey, in the course of construction, from river (? River Nadder). Continuation of drawing on p. 12’.1
For Turner’s work at Fonthill for James Wyatt, the architect of William Beckford’s Gothic house, see the contemporary Fonthill sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest XLVII).

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

1
Finberg 1909, I, p.103.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Fonthill Abbey: Distant View with the River Nadder 1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-fonthill-abbey-distant-view-with-the-river-nadder-r1173883, accessed 19 April 2024.