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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Melrose Abbey: Distant View from the East, with a Watermill in the Foreground 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Melrose Abbey: Distant View from the East, with a Watermill in the Foreground’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Recto:
Melrose Abbey: Distant View from the East, with a Watermill in the Foreground 1797
D00970
Turner Bequest XXXIV 61
Pencil on white wove paper, 210 x 270
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘61’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXIV 61’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is drawn with the page turned horizontally. For Turner’s series of careful drawings of Melrose Abbey see note to folio 64 recto (D00969; Turner Bequest XXXIV 60).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Melrose Abbey: Distant View from the East, with a Watermill in the Foreground 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-melrose-abbey-distant-view-from-the-east-with-a-watermill-in-r1150126, accessed 25 April 2024.