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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Malmesbury: The Ruined Tower of the Abbey, with the Parish Church 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Malmesbury: The Ruined Tower of the Abbey, with the Parish Church’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Malmesbury: The Ruined Tower of the Abbey, with the Parish Church 1798
D01328
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 74
Pencil on white wove paper, 229 x 332 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘X’ top right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII – 74’ bottom right
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, this is one of a sequence of twelve drawings of Malmesbury in this book; see under folio 2 recto (D01252; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 3).
Having been removed for display in the National Gallery’s First Loan Collection, the sheet became misplaced as well as badly discoloured; listing it as page 74 of the book, Finberg noted that it ‘should be p. 4a’.1
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Finberg 1909, I, p.87.
Technical notes:
The paper is discoloured from exposure while on display, except where the edges were protected by a mount.
Verso:
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart’ and ‘Malmesbury’, to which has been added another hand in pencil ‘?’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram below ‘XXXVIII – 74’; inscribed by A.J. Finberg in red ink ‘p.74 “Hereford Court” sketch book .’ For Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s commission see the note to folio 3 recto (D01253; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 4).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Malmesbury: The Ruined Tower of the Abbey, with the Parish Church 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-the-ruined-tower-of-the-abbey-with-the-parish-r1173144, accessed 25 April 2024.