'Landscape, with Church Tower and Ruins', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Landscape, with Church Tower and Ruins

From Derbyshire Sketchbook

Turner Bequest CVI

Date 1808

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 108 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D07231

Turner Bequest CVI 77 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 80 Verso:

Landscape, with Church Tower and Ruins 1808

D07231
Turner Bequest CVI 77a

Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Drawn with the sketchbook inverted.

David Blayney Brown
July 2010

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

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Derbyshire Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest