Joseph Mallord William Turner

Melrose Abbey: Distant View from the East, with a Watermill in the Foreground

1797

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
North of England Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 272 x 210 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D00970
Turner Bequest XXXIV 61

Catalogue entry

The subject is drawn with the page turned horizontally. For Turner’s series of careful drawings of Melrose Abbey see note to folio 64 recto (D00969; Turner Bequest XXXIV 60).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

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