Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British

Title:

Newark Abbey

Date:

between 1806 and 1807

Materials & Techniques:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

36 x 48 1/2 inches (91.4 x 123.2 cm)

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1981.25.633

Classification:

Paintings

Collection:

Paintings and Sculpture

Subject Terms:

Associated Places:

Currently On View:

Not on view

Exhibition History:

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)

Richard Parkes Bonington (Musée du Petit Palais, 1992-03-05 - 1992-05-17)

J. M. W. Turner - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1968-10-31 - 1969-04-21)

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)

Publications:

Sir Walter Armstrong, Turner, Thos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., London, 1902, p. 226, Folio A N 11 (YCBA)

Martin Butlin, The paintings of J.M.W. Turner, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1984, pp. 51, 118, No. 65, pl. 75, NJ18 T85 B885 1984 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Christie's sale catalogue : The valuable and extensive collection of Italian, French, Flemish, Dutch, and English pictures, forming the Pall-Mall Gallery : 20 March 1838, Christie's, March 20, 1838, p. 11, lot 214, Art Sales Catalogues Online

Christie's sale catalogue : The valuable collection of paintings by ancient and modern masters, of Sir Thomas Lawrence, late president of the Royal Academy, deceased : 15 May 1830, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, , May 15, 1830, p. 9, lot 117, Art Sales Catalogues Online

Christie's sale catalogue : The very choice collection of modern pictures . . . [of] the Rt. Hon. Lord de Tabley, deceased : 7 July 1827, Christie's, July 7. 1827, p. 4, lot 19, Art Sales Catalogues Online

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 226-227, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

John Fleming Leicester De Tabley Baron, A catalogue of pictures by British artists in the possession of Sir John Fleming Leicester, Bart. : with etchings from the whole collection..., London, p. 33, no. 69, N5247 .D4 1825+ Oversize (YCBA Rare Books)

Exhibition of [ the ] Works of the Old Masters together with works of Deceased Masters of the British School Winter Exhibition 3d Year 1872, Royal Academy of Arts, 1872, p. 16, no. 145, Fiche B108 (YCBA) Also available online : http://www.racollection.org.uk

Exhibition of Works by [ the ] Old Masters and by deceased masters of the British School including a collection of paintings by Albert Cuyp and of works by some English Landscape painters also . . . Winter Exhibition 34th Year, Royal Academy of Arts, 1903, p. 11, no. 31, Fiche B138 (YCBA)

A. J. Finberg, The life of J. M. W. Turner, R.A. : with a supplment by Hilda F. Finberg, , Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1961, pp. 136-7, NJ18 T85 F55 1961 (YCBA)

Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p. 67, ND466 G67 (YCBA)

Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 218, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

J.M.W. Turner : a selection of paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon., Exhibition held Oct. 31, 1968-Apr. 21, 1969 in the National Gallery of Art , National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1968, pp. 13, 21, no. 6, fig. 6, NJ18 T85 U5 (YCBA)

Franny Moyle, Turner : The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner, New York, 2016, p. 251, NJ18 T85 M79 2016 (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 89 (v.1), no. 131, pl. 177, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 50 (v.1), no. 182, ND466 R68 1964/65 (YCBA)

Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, p. 259, No. P65, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, pp. 53-4 (v.1), no. 199, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)

Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1096