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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Fonthill Abbey, with an Aqueduct in the Foreground 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Fonthill Abbey, with an Aqueduct in the Foreground’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Distant View of Fonthill Abbey, with an Aqueduct in the Foreground 1799
D02183
Turner Bequest XLVII 6
Pencil on white wove paper, 333 x 467 mm
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 6’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, the large-scale arcade that Turner carefully delineates in the foreground of this view was probably an aqueduct, perhaps taking water either to Fonthill Splendens or to the new Abbey. No trace of it seems to have survived.
Technical notes:
For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 15, see the Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Distant View of Fonthill Abbey, with an Aqueduct in the Foreground 1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-distant-view-of-fonthill-abbey-with-an-aqueduct-in-the-r1174231, accessed 26 April 2024.