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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Whalley Abbey: Arches of the Dormitory 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Whalley Abbey: Arches of the Dormitory’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
Whalley Abbey: Arches of the Dormitory 1799
D02005
Turner Bequest XLVI 9a
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a grey ground, 79 x 130 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the page turned horizontally, the subject is continued on folio 10 recto opposite (D02006). The extant ribs of the fifteenth-century dormitory vault (see also folio 8 recto; D02003) provide one of the most striking features of the ruins of the fourteenth-century Cistercian abbey.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Whalley Abbey: Arches of the Dormitory 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-arches-of-the-dormitory-r1179864, accessed 26 April 2024.