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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dryden Monument, Westminster Abbey c.1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dryden Monument, Westminster Abbey’ c.1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Dryden Monument, Westminster Abbey c.1832
D27239
Turner Bequest CCLXXVIII 7a
Pencil on white wove paper, 189 x 113 mm
Watermark ‘R BARNARD¦1820’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil (see main entry)
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study of the John Dryden monument in Westminster Abbey is one of several drawings of the church in this volume. For more information on these, see the sketchbook introduction. At various points on the page, Turner has transcribed the inscription on the Dryden monument. These notes read, ‘J. DRYDEN ¦NATUS 1672 MORTUUS Maij 1, 1700’. Also transcribed are the inscriptions on the monument upon which Dryden’s sits to John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham. These read ‘Johannes Sheffield DUX BUC ¦KINGHAMIENSIS POSUIT 1720’.
Technical notes:
There is a patch of red ink in the top right hand corner of the page.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Dryden Monument, Westminster Abbey c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-dryden-monument-westminster-abbey-r1181372, accessed 17 July 2024.