Joseph Mallord William Turner

Turner filled this page with an apparently continuous sketch of the overgrown ruins of Netley Abbey, located about five miles south-east of Southampton. The drawing is inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated. Particular attention has been paid to the way in which doors and windows punctuate the long crumbling wall and, towards the top left-hand corner, the arrangement of stone courses and buttresses on the exterior of the south transept. 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.