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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Leonard's Church, Hythe, Coastline Beyond c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Leonard's Church, Hythe, Coastline Beyond’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Verso:
St Leonard’s Church, Hythe, Coastline Beyond circa 1816–19
D10493
Turner Bequest CXL 43a
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sandg...’ lower centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner shows the Norman and medieval church of St Leonard’s, Hythe with its rebuilt eighteenth-century tower from inland, in what is now North Road. The coastline, with Martello towers, is visible beyond. The inscription probably refers to Sandgate a little further up the coast towards Folkestone, rather than to Sandling as noted on the recto (D10492). For a more distant view of the church as seen from the Ashford road see folio 51 verso of this sketchbook (D10497; Turner Bequest CXL 45a).

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘St Leonard’s Church, Hythe, Coastline Beyond c.1816–19 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-st-leonards-church-hythe-coastline-beyond-r1131486, accessed 20 September 2024.