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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fonthill: Near View of the South Front of the Abbey from the Lawn 1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fonthill: Near View of the South Front of the Abbey from the Lawn’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Fonthill: Near View of the South Front of the Abbey from the Lawn 1799
D41264
Pencil on white wove paper, 469 x 333 mm
Watermark ‘J Whatman 1794’
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram above ‘XLVII – 3’ towards top left, descending vertically
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory,1 this is a brief continuation of the detailed study of Fonthill Abbey on D02178 (Turner Bequest XLVII 1). There is another Fonthill view on the recto (D02180; Turner Bequest XLVII 3).
1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.120.
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 verso, see the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
February 2015

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Fonthill: Near View of the South Front of the Abbey from the Lawn 1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2015, 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-near-view-of-the-south-front-of-the-abbey-from-the-r1174245, accessed 24 April 2024.