Northwest View of Malmesbury Abbey
Northwest View of Malmesbury Abbey
Artist
Creation date
about 1791
Materials
pencil on white paper
Dimensions
7 3/4 x 10 1/2 in (sheet)
Credit line
Gift in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Hugo Pantzer
Accession number
72.168
Collection
Not Currently On View
Turner habitually sketched a site from many angles rather than follow the common practice of fixing on the one spot that guidebooks of the day prescribed as the "best view."
This close-up of the ruined abbey was one of several drawn in the summer of 1791, from which the sixteen-year-old artist chose one to work up into a watercolor for the next year's Royal Academy exhibition.
