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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Holywell: The Interior of the Cloisters, St Winifred's Well 1799

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Holywell: The Interior of the Cloisters, St Winifred's Well’ 1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Holywell: The Interior of the Cloisters, St Winifred’s Well 1799
D02022
Turner Bequest XLVI 19
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a pale buff ground, 130 x 79 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘19’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘XLVI – 19’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the drawing is continued on folio 18 verso opposite (D02021), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Holywell: The Interior of the Cloisters, St Winifred’s Well 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-holywell-the-interior-of-the-cloisters-st-winifreds-well-r1179881, accessed 25 April 2024.