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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner New Abbey, near Dumfries 1831

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘New Abbey, near Dumfries’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Verso:
New Abbey, near Dumfries 1831
D25852
Turner Bequest CCLXVI 46a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
One of Turner’s eight pages with sketches of New Abbey (see folio 46; D25831 for details), this page shows the interior with a view looking east up the nave towards the east window. With no surviving roof we look right up to the tower with its bare gables and a triangular scar where the roof of the nave once was. The inscription ‘6’ at the bottom left of the page refers to the fact that there are six arches on either side of the nave to the west of the tower, only four of which are shown.
There is another sketch of the interior on folio 47 (D25853).

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘New Abbey, near Dumfries 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, 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-new-abbey-near-dumfries-r1134219, accessed 26 April 2024.