Joseph Mallord William Turner

Whalley Abbey: The Ruined Cloisters

1799

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Lancashire and North Wales Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 225 × 329 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D01984
Turner Bequest XLV 44

Catalogue entry

Details of mouldings are studied below the main drawing, to the left. Made with the page turned horizontally, this was the basis for the untraced finished watercolour,1 engraved in 1800 for Thomas Dunham Whitaker’s History of Whalley (Tate impression: T05928). It follows the study closely; Turner added a group of boys playing marbles on the turf in the foreground. Others views of the abbey are on folios 31 verso, 34 verso, 35 verso (D01961, D01967, D01969), and 44 recto (D01983; Turner Bequest XLV 43).

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.332 no.288.

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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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