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Frame (modern) to JMW Turner The Refectory at Kirkstall Abbey
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Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (1775 - 1851)
Frame (modern) to JMW Turner The Refectory at Kirkstall Abbey
Watercolour
Museum number: P312.A
On display: Morning Room (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
Sadly, Turner's watercolour of Kirkstall Abbey does not retain its original close frame: it was reframed in 1882 with a window-mount and a narrow frame (presumably the original bulky frame was disposed of) to enable this picture to be hung within the planes in the Picture Room [the 1882 frame remains in our collection, inventoried as P312.B]. As part of the restoration of the Morning Room in 2014-15 this new frame, replicating the original in so far as is possible from views and record drawings, was made by Joseph McCarthy Frames of Tunbridge Wells.
Associated items
P312, framed work
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