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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The West End of Malmesbury Abbey, Seen from the South-West 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The West End of Malmesbury Abbey, Seen from the South-West’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
The West End of Malmesbury Abbey, Seen from the South-West 1798
D01483
Turner Bequest XL 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 135 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘12’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XL – 12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing continues on folio11 verso opposite (D01482), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The West End of Malmesbury Abbey, Seen from the South-West 1798 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 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-west-end-of-malmesbury-abbey-seen-from-the-south-west-r1173719, accessed 20 May 2024.