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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Malmesbury Abbey from the North-East 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Malmesbury Abbey from the North-East’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Malmesbury Abbey from the North-East 1798
D01485
Turner Bequest XL 13a
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘80’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XL – 13 a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This close-up study of the ruins of Malmesbury Abbey is more substantial than the somewhat perfunctory one on folios 11 verso–12 recto (D01482–D01483). The subject is continued on folio 14 recto opposite (D01486), where a detail of Romanesque moulding is studied separately at the top right.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Malmesbury Abbey from the North-East 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-abbey-from-the-north-east-r1173722, accessed 20 April 2024.