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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dunblane Cathedral from the North, with Allan Water to the Right 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dunblane Cathedral from the North, with Allan Water to the Right’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 147 Verso:
Dunblane Cathedral from the North, with Allan Water to the Right 1801
D03197
Turner Bequest LVI 145a
Pencil on white wove paper, 184 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘mott | 97’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is continued on folio 148 recto opposite (D03198; Turner Bequest LVI 146). A slightly different view of the cathedral was made in the Smaller Fonthill sketchbook (Tate; Turner Bequest XLVIII, now largely dispersed); see the ‘Architectural and Other Subjects c.1797–1807’ section of this catalogue, where it is listed in the Smaller Fonthill book’s Introduction as no.39 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford).1 It was used for Dumblain Abbey, Scotland, engraved in 1816 for the Liber Studiorum (Tate impressions: A01117, A01118); see the entry for the watercolour design, Tate D08157 (Turner Bequest CXVIII C).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Luke Herrmann, Ruskin and Turner: A Study of Ruskin as a Collector of Turner, Based on his Gifts to the University of Oxford; Incorporating a Catalogue Raisonné of the Turner Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, London 1968, p.91 no.70, pl.XLII e, as 1801; see also Finberg 1909, I, p.123.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Dunblane Cathedral from the North, with Allan Water to the Right 1801 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 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-dunblane-cathedral-from-the-north-with-allan-water-to-the-r1179393, accessed 23 September 2024.