'Guildford: The Ruins of St Catherine's Chapel', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Guildford: The Ruins of St Catherine's Chapel

From Pencil Drawings of Oxford and the Home Counties

Date c.1792

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 214 x 273 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D00183

Turner Bequest XVII H

View this artwork by appointment, at Tate Britain's Prints and Drawings Rooms

Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Guildford: The Ruins of St Catherine’s Chapel c.1792

D00183
Turner Bequest XVII H

Pencil on white wove paper, 214 x 273 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘XVII.H’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XVII H’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Turner was to include a dramatic view of St Catherine’s Hill in his England and Wales series; the watercolour is in the British Museum, London (Lloyd Bequest).1 See also the verso (D40227).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.398 no.837, reproduced.

Read this catalogue entry in full

This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

Other works of art you may be interested in

Find similar artworks

Artist

Decade

Subject

architecture (30,435)

religious (4,160)

chapel (164)

ruins (3,193)

religious (742)

nature (37,449)

landscape (24,056)

hill (10,038)

wooded (8,572)

places (23,428)

UK cities, towns and villages (6,777)

Guildford, St Catherine's Chapel (18)

UK counties (9,311)

Surrey (175)

UK countries and regions (10,976)

England (8,180)

UK natural features (3,821)

St Catherine's Hill (11)

Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Geographic location

British Isles

Southern England

Surrey

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest

Galleries

Joseph Mallord William TurnerGuildford: The Ruins of St Catherine's Chapel c.1792

Artwork details