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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Abbotsbury, Dorset: The Granary c.1796

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Abbotsbury, Dorset: The Granary’ c.1796
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Abbotsbury, Dorset: The Granary c.1796
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Turner Bequest XXXIII V
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 140 x 210 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXIII – V’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This was copied from a drawing by Edward Dayes (1763–1804), possibly after James Moore (1762–1799), which was with the London dealers Spink in 1978. For another likely copy after Dayes, see Tate D00705 (Turner Bequest XXVIII T). Turner’s drawing was almost certainly executed as part of the project for which Thomas Girtin (1775–1802) made a series of pencil copies from Dayes and others: see especially another view at Abbotsbury (Tate D36601; Turner Bequest CCCLXXVII 30).
A similar view was engraved after Moore by George Isham Parkyns for his Monastic Remains and Ancient Castles in England and Wales (1792) and another was engraved by Miss Hawksworth after Samuel Prout (1783–1852) in about 1810.
Verso:
Slight pencil sketch of a tree, and a man on a horse, partly erased; watercolour and ink stains; not stamped.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Abbotsbury, Dorset: The Granary c.1796 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-abbotsbury-dorset-the-granary-r1141193, accessed 16 May 2024.