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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Rhine, Strassburg and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Abingdon 1802-3

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Abingdon’ 1802-3
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
?Abingdon 1802–3
D04762
Turner Bequest LXXVII 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 240 mm
Inscribed in an unknown hand in pencil ‘24’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXVII – 24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A very slight sketch, but perhaps of Abingdon; see folio 22 of this sketchbook (D04759) for another view likely to be of the town, and Introduction to the sketchbook for its views of the Thames Valley.
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David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘?Abingdon 1802–3 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, 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-abingdon-r1133465, accessed 21 November 2024.