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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ruined Castle or Abbey in the Distance 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ruined Castle or Abbey in the Distance’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
A Ruined Castle or Abbey in the Distance 1801
D02657
Turner Bequest LIV 38
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘38’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LIV 38’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is the same ruined building as on folio 37 verso opposite (D02656), seen from farther off. More drawings of what is apparently the same building occur in pencil studies on leaves from the disbound Smaller Fonthill sketchbook, listed as nos.52–54 in the checklist of drawings in other collections in that sketchbook’s Introduction (see the ‘Architectural and Other Subjects c.1797–1807’ section of this catalogue); all are now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (respectively nos.59.792, 07.860, and 07.859).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Ruined Castle or Abbey in the Distance 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-in-the-distance-r1178843, accessed 19 September 2024.