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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Malmesbury: Distant View of the Abbey from the North 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Malmesbury: Distant View of the Abbey from the North’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Malmesbury: Distant View of the Abbey from the North 1798
D01250
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 1
Pencil on white wove paper, 229 x 332 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘1’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII 1’ bottom left, descending vertically
The view was made with the page turned horizontally. The England and Wales watercolour of about 1827 (private collection),1 engraved in 1829 (Tate impressions: T04538, T04539), was based on this drawing. See the notes to folios 2 recto and 3 recto (D01252, D01253; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 3, 4). For other views of Malmesbury on adjacent pages and elsewhere, see under D01252.
1
Wilton 1979, p.394 no.805, reproduced.
Technical notes:
There are yellow paint trials at the bottom right.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram and numbered in pencil ‘1’ (circled).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Malmesbury: Distant View of the Abbey from the North 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-malmesbury-distant-view-of-the-abbey-from-the-north-r1173142, accessed 19 April 2024.