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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Rocky Islet with a Ruined Chapel 1791

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Rocky Islet with a Ruined Chapel’ 1791
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
A Rocky Islet with a Ruined Chapel 1791
D00080
Turner Bequest VI 7a
Pencil on white wove paper, 185 x 263 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?yellow stone]’, ‘sea’, and ‘[?brown]’ within the drawing
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See folio 5 recto (D00076). The drawing on this page was the basis for a finished watercolour, Welsh Coast Scene, possibly made on another sheet from this sketchbook (formerly with Messrs Agnews, London).1
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Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.318 no.171.
Technical notes:
Blue watercolour stains are offset from folio 8 recto (D000781).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Rocky Islet with a Ruined Chapel 1791 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-a-rocky-islet-with-a-ruined-chapel-r1140130, accessed 21 November 2024.