
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Graphite and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 359 × 250 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D00374
Turner Bequest XXIII A
Display caption
In the 1790s Turner made a series of tours throughout Britain. He was looking for Picturesque and historical subjects for watercolours that he intended to sell or show in exhibitions.
Turner had sketched Tintern Abbey, in South Wales, on a tour in 1792. The area was one of the most visited tourist spots in Britain. William Wordsworth also visited the area in these years. His poem, Tintern Abbey (1798) revealed the complex historical, political and emotional associations the ruin had for people at the time.
Gallery label, August 2004
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Joseph Mallord William Turner General View of the Ruins of Tintern Abbey from the South
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tintern Abbey: The West Front
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tintern Abbey: The Chancel and East Window with the Crossing, Seen from the Ruined Nave
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kirkstall Abbey: Interior of the Entrance to the Crossing, Looking East
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Melrose Abbey: The North Transept and Nave Seen from the Cloister
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dryburgh Abbey: Interior of the Ruins
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Kirkstall Abbey: The Interior of the Ruined Crossing, Seen from the Nave
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Joseph Mallord William Turner York Minster: The Interior, Looking towards the Crossing and North Transept from the South Transept
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Joseph Mallord William Turner York Minster, Looking East towards the Crossing and Organ Screen, from the Nave
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tintern: The Abbey and Village Looking Downstream
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tintern: The Ruined Gatehouse of the Abbey, from the Wye
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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Mary’s Abbey, York, the Nave and Crossing from the South-East
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