At the top of the page there is a pencil inscription by Turner:
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Jedburgh
With the sketchbook turned to the right is a sketch that David Wallace-Hadrill recognised as Jedburgh Abbey.
1 This is the west end of the abbey where there is a rose window in the gable and an ornate arched entrance. The sketch continues onto folio 1 (
D25644) where the door is shown along with several other architectural details. In his attempt to make the sketch fit into the available space on the page Turner has made the abbey appear more squat than it actually is. Above the sketch to the left is a small study of part of two arches, probably from the clerestory level of the north or south sides of the abbey.
There are further sketches of Jedburgh Abbey on folios 10 verso and 11 verso and 19 (
D25660,
D25662), and perhaps further sketches on folios 13, 23 verso and 48 verso (
D25664,
D25683,
D25731), as well as in the
Abbotsford sketchbook (Tate
D26039; Turner Bequest CCLXVII 65 a).
Thomas Ardill
September 2009
