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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Malmesbury: The Market Cross, with the Abbey Beyond 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Malmesbury: The Market Cross, with the Abbey Beyond’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
Malmesbury: The Market Cross, with the Abbey Beyond 1798
D01255
Turner Bequest XXXVIII 6
Pencil on white wove paper, 229 x 332 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘6’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXVIII 6’ bottom left, descending vertically
The topmost crocket of the market cross is continued on folio 8 verso opposite (the recto being D01254; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 5). Another drawing of the Cross is in the contemporary Dynevor Castle sketchbook (Tate D01474–D01475; Turner Bequest XL 7a–8).
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is one of a sequence of twelve drawings of Malmesbury in the present book; see under folio 2 recto (D01252; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 3).
Verso:
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sir Richard Colt Hoare Bart’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram. For the Colt Hoare commission for drawings of Malmesbury, see the note to folio 3 recto (D01253; Turner Bequest XXXVIII 4).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Malmesbury: The Market Cross, with the Abbey Beyond 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-market-cross-with-the-abbey-beyond-r1173147, accessed 23 April 2024.