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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ground Plan of a Cruciform Building, Probably a Church ?1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ground Plan of a Cruciform Building, Probably a Church’ ?1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Verso:
A Ground Plan of a Cruciform Building, Probably a Church ?1816
D40882
Pencil on white wove paper with gilt edges, 179 x 254 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch was not recorded in Finberg’s Turner Bequest Inventory.1 There are ground plans of Fountains Abbey on folios 40 recto and 41 recto (D09837, D09838; Turner Bequest CXXXIV 42, 43), but this one does not seem to be related.

Matthew Imms
July 2014

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.382.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Ground Plan of a Cruciform Building, Probably a Church ?1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-ground-plan-of-a-cruciform-building-probably-a-church-r1147401, accessed 19 April 2024.