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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Composition Study for a View of Fonthill from the South-West 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Composition Study for a View of Fonthill from the South-West’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 106 Verso:
Composition Study for a View of Fonthill from the South-West 1799
D02152
Turner Bequest XLVI 106a
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 130 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this related to the finished watercolour of Fonthill Abbey exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1800 as South-west view of a Gothic Abbey now building at Fonthill, the seat of W. Beckford Esq. (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto);1 compare folios 111 recto and 113 recto (D02158, D02162).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.338 no.336, reproduced.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Composition Study for a View of Fonthill from the South-West 1799 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-composition-study-for-a-view-of-fonthill-from-the-south-west-r1180011, accessed 26 April 2024.