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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Whalley Abbey: Part of the Cloister and Dormitory from the West 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Whalley Abbey: Part of the Cloister and Dormitory from the West’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Whalley Abbey: Part of the Cloister and Dormitory from the West 1799
D40771
Pencil on white wove paper washed with a grey-green ground, 79 x 130 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, and not mentioned in Finberg’s Inventory,1 this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 8 recto opposite (D02003), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.115.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Whalley Abbey: Part of the Cloister and Dormitory from the West 1799 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-whalley-abbey-part-of-the-cloister-and-dormitory-from-the-r1179861, accessed 24 April 2024.