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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Melrose Abbey: The Ruins with Neighbouring Buildings, Seen from the East 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Melrose Abbey: The Ruins with Neighbouring Buildings, Seen from the East’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Melrose Abbey: The Ruins with Neighbouring Buildings, Seen from the East 1797
D01020
Turner Bequest XXXV 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Part watermark ‘1796’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 18’ bottom left, descending vertically
The subject was drawn with the page turned horizontally. For Turner’s work at Melrose see under folio 22 recto (D01019; Turner Bequest XXXV 16) and also folio 23 recto (D40551; Turner Bequest XXXV 17). Two other drawings are in the contemporary North of England sketchbook (Tate D00969, D00970; Turner Bequest XXXIV 60, 61).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed in brown ink by Ruskin ‘100’ (circled in pencil); and in a later hand in pencil ‘24’ (another inscribed ‘24’ in blue crayon has been deleted); and by A.J. Finberg ‘141.18’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Melrose Abbey: The Ruins with Neighbouring Buildings, Seen from the East 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2010, 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-the-ruins-with-neighbouring-buildings-seen-r1150188, accessed 27 April 2024.