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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fonthill: The Abbey Seen from the South-West, beyond Trees 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fonthill: The Abbey Seen from the South-West, beyond Trees’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Fonthill: The Abbey Seen from the South-West, beyond Trees 1799
D02180
Turner Bequest XLVII 3
Pencil on white wove paper, 333 x 469 mm
Blind-stamped lower right centre with Turner Bequest monogram
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Stamped in black ‘XLVII 3’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally, probably from the viewpoint of Pine Lawn. There is a brief continuation of another Fonthill view on the verso (D31264).
Technical notes:
The sheet appears to have been affected by flooding, presumably in the Tate Gallery incident of 1928. For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with this page as folio 27, see the Introduction.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Fonthill: The Abbey Seen from the South-West, beyond Trees 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-the-abbey-seen-from-the-south-west-beyond-trees-r1174244, accessed 26 April 2024.