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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cassiobury: The Interior of the Great Cloister 1807

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cassiobury: The Interior of the Great Cloister’ 1807
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Cassiobury: The Interior of the Great Cloister 1807
D02234
Turner Bequest XLVII 57
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 220 x 184 mm
Stamped in black ‘XLVII – 57’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing is part of a larger, mutilated page (see the Technical notes later in this entry)); its subject is discussed in the entry for the other piece, D02220 (Turner Bequest XLVII 43).
Technical notes:
The sheet is discoloured from exposure. This is a fragment of a sketchbook leaf, used horizontally and originally measuring approximately 334 x 469 mm; the other part (D02220) is mounted to its left. For a proposed sequence for the leaves of the disbound Fonthill sketchbook, with these two fragments as folio 57, see the Introduction.
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Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Cassiobury: The Interior of the Great Cloister 1807 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-cassiobury-the-interior-of-the-great-cloister-r1174277, accessed 24 April 2024.