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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ruins of Dryburgh Abbey 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ruins of Dryburgh Abbey’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
Ruins of Dryburgh Abbey 1831
D26055
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 73a
Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The rough sketch on this page, which come between more easily identifiable sketches of Dryburgh Abbey, is similar in style to sketches on folios 70 verso, 72 and 73 verso (D26053, D26056, D26059; CCLXVII 72a, 74 and 75a). Presumably, it also depicts part of the abbey as Gerald Finley has suggested.1

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

1
Finley 1972, p.382 note 137.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Ruins of Dryburgh Abbey 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-ruins-of-dryburgh-abbey-r1134423, accessed 20 April 2024.