J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Wadhurst, with the Church of St Peter and St Paul c.1810-16

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wadhurst, with the Church of St Peter and St Paul’ c.1810-16
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
Wadhurst, with the Church of St Peter and St Paul circa 1810–16
D10291
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 56a
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Wadhurst’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted. Turner would have passed through Wadhurst en route to East Sussex in 1810 and 1815/16.

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Wadhurst, with the Church of St Peter and St Paul c.1810–16 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-wadhurst-with-the-church-of-st-peter-and-st-paul-r1131337, accessed 14 May 2024.