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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Dunstanburgh Castle; Studies of Gothic Details at Lacock Abbey 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Dunstanburgh Castle; Studies of Gothic Details at Lacock Abbey’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Recto:
?Dunstanburgh Castle; Studies of Gothic Details at Lacock Abbey 1798
D01608
Turner Bequest XL 85
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Laycock door window | Stairs’ towards bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘85’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XL – 85’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the landscape drawing with grey wash continues on folio 86 verso opposite (D01607; Turner Bequest XL 84a), under which the subject is discussed. For Lacock Abbey, see the entry for the verso (D01609).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘?Dunstanburgh Castle; Studies of Gothic Details at Lacock Abbey 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-dunstanburgh-castle-studies-of-gothic-details-at-lacock-r1173847, accessed 25 April 2024.