J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ruined Castle or Abbey, with Hills beyond and a Lake or River in the Foreground 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ruined Castle or Abbey, with Hills beyond and a Lake or River in the Foreground’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Verso:
A Ruined Castle or Abbey, with Hills beyond and a Lake or River in the Foreground 1801
D02658
Turner Bequest LIV 38a
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. See also folio 37 verso and the recto (D02656, D02657).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Ruined Castle or Abbey, with Hills beyond and a Lake or River in the Foreground 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-ruined-castle-or-abbey-with-hills-beyond-and-a-lake-or-r1178844, accessed 23 April 2024.