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Creator:
Monro School
Style of Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Title:
Album of Monro School Drawings
Former Title(s):
7 drawings by various hands inserted in an album lettered on front "Drawings by Turner R.A."
Part Of:

Collective Title: Album of Monro School Drawings

Date:
ca. 1795
Materials & Techniques:
Album of Seven watercolor drawings by various hands on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on album pages
Dimensions:
Spine: 7 1/8 inches (18.1 cm), Overall: 7 × 10 5/8 inches (17.8 × 27 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed in graphite on front endpaper: "1 Wingfield Castle Suffolk | 2 Hedingham Castle Essex | 3 Porchester Castle Hants | 4 Holy Cross Chapel Basingstoke | 5 St. Mary's Colchester --really Margan Abbey, Glam. | 6 | 7 Abbottsbury Abby. Dorset 1834 --really <Abbottsbury> Rowborough Priory, Suffolk | 8 Rowborough Priory Suffolk --really Abbottsbury Abby, Suffolk"

Medallion-shaped bookplate: "Spe Otii Laboro" (Edward Vernon Utterson)

Embossed lettering on cover: "Drawings | by | Turner, R.A."

Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.3289V
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Access:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:58052
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