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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ruined Castle or Abbey, with Hills beyond and Trees to the Left 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ruined Castle or Abbey, with Hills beyond and Trees to the Left’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
A Ruined Castle or Abbey, with Hills beyond and Trees to the Left 1801
D02656
Turner Bequest LIV 37a
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Having made this rough sketch, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, Turner seems to have experimented with a more formal composition based on it, on folio 36 verso (D02654). Another view of the same building is on folio 38 recto (D02657).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Ruined Castle or Abbey, with Hills beyond and Trees to the Left 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-ruined-castle-or-abbey-with-hills-beyond-and-trees-to-the-r1178842, accessed 20 September 2024.