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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Netley Abbey, Hampshire ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Netley Abbey, Hampshire’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto:
Netley Abbey, Hampshire ?1832
D23586
Turner Bequest CCLII 35
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘35’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLII – 35’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled the lower half of this page with a single view of the overgrown ruins of Netley Abbey, located about five miles south-east of Southampton. Particular attention has been paid to the way in which the crumbling buildings are couched within a gently undulating wooded terrain. The scribbled pencil marks in the bottom left-hand corner are a continuation of a sketch of the east end of the ruin on folio 34 verso opposite (D23585; Turner Bequest CCLII 34a). The abbey was the subject of particular study in this sketchbook, and recurs on multiple pages; see folio 32 verso (D23581; Turner Bequest CCLII 32a) for the main entry on this site.

John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Netley Abbey, Hampshire ?1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, 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-netley-abbey-hampshire-r1175078, accessed 20 September 2024.