Joseph Mallord William Turner

?Part of a Ruined Monastic Building

1793

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Dover
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 177 × 214 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D00175
Turner Bequest XVI M

Catalogue entry

Finberg1 suggested that the subject is St Martin’s Priory, Dover, of which a drawing in a similar style is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1
MS note, Tate catalogue files.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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