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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Inscription by Turner: Title of a View 1791

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Inscription by Turner: Title of a View’ 1791
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inscription by Turner: Title of a View 1791
D40031
Pen and brown ink on white wove paper, 327 x 248 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pen and brown ink ‘The Ruins of the Tower of’ towards top centre and ‘the Ruins of the Tower | at the West End of Malmbury [sic] Abbey | taken from the Friars Walk | 1791’ centre
Stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram above ‘VII D’ bottom left
Inscribed in pencil in a later hand, in pencil ‘4’ (circled) towards lower right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This side of this sheet is not mentioned specifically in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue,1 although he gives Turner’s longer inscription as the title of the subject on the recto (D00111; Turner Bequest VII D).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.12.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Inscription by Turner: Title of a View 1791 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-inscription-by-turner-title-of-a-view-r1140432, accessed 06 August 2026.