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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Interior of a Gothic Church; Netley Abbey, Hampshire ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Interior of a Gothic Church; Netley Abbey, Hampshire’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
Interior of a Gothic Church; Netley Abbey, Hampshire ?1832
D23584
Turner Bequest CCLII 34
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Partial watermark ‘J. JELL | 18’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘L[...]k’, ‘P[...]ps’, ‘L[...]’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘34’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLII – 34’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, the sketch on the right-hand side of this page depicts the interior of a Gothic building. Although this part of the sketchbook is dominated by depictions of the ruins of Netley Abbey in Hampshire, the roof of this structure is intact and may represent the same edifice seen on folios 53 verso (D23620; Turner Bequest CCLII 53a) and 54 recto (D23621; Turner Bequest CCLII 54). The crumbling arcades of Netley Abbey, bisected by the delicate form of a sapling, appear in the top left-hand corner. The abbey was the subject of particular study in this sketchbook, and recurs on multiple pages; see folio 32 verso (D23581; Turner Bequest CCLII 32a) for the main entry on this site.

John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Interior of a Gothic Church; Netley Abbey, Hampshire ?1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, 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-interior-of-a-gothic-church-netley-abbey-hampshire-r1175076, accessed 23 April 2024.