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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fonthill: Distant View of the Abbey from the South, with the Ruins of Old Wardour Castle in the Right Foreground 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fonthill: Distant View of the Abbey from the South, with the Ruins of Old Wardour Castle in the Right Foreground’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Fonthill: Distant View of the Abbey from the South, with the Ruins of Old Wardour Castle in the Right Foreground 1799
D02195
Turner Bequest XLVII 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 338 x 469 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘c’, ‘c’ and ‘c’ in the drawing, on fields
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 18’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned vertically, this is a slight study. Another drawing showing Old Wardour Castle is on D02186 (Turner Bequest XLVII 9).
Technical notes:
The drawing has possibly been damaged by water. Thread holes are evident along the top edge. For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 19, see the Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Fonthill: Distant View of the Abbey from the South, with the Ruins of Old Wardour Castle in the Right 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-fonthill-distant-view-of-the-abbey-from-the-south-with-the-r1174235, accessed 26 April 2024.