LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Watercolor over pencil

Measurements:

12.60 in. (32.00 cm.) (height) by 16.61 in. (42.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed lower centre: W. Turner

Exhibited:

Manchester, City Art Gallery (on loan);. London, Agnew's,. Exhibition of Water Colours of Turner, Cox and De Wint , 1924, no. 2;. London, Royal Academy, . The First Hundred Years of the Royal Academy 1769-1868 , 1950-51, no. 500 (as 'Malvern Abbey');. London, Agnew's,. Centenary Exhibition of Water Colour Drawings by J.M.W. Turner R.A., 1951, no. 15;. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, 1975 (on loan

Literature:

Sir W. Armstrong,. Turner, London 1902, p. 265. ; A. Wilton,. The Life and Works of J.M.W. Turner, Fribourg 1979, no. 50;. E. Shanes,. Young Mr Turner. The First Forty Years: 1775-1815 , London 2016, pp. 88-9

Provenance:

Possibly Thomas Greenwood (c. 1807-1876);. possibly with Agnew's, Manchester;. Thomas Ashton of Hyde, near Manchester, 1890;. Mrs P.W. Kessler, London, by 1924,. Miss Jean Kessler, by 1950,. H.A. Kessler,. his sale, London, Sotheby's, 19 November 1970, lot 107, bt. Agnew's,. with Agnew's, London;. sale, New York, Sotheby's, (Property of a West Coast Private Collector), 28 February 1990, lot 8