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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Two Churches 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Two Churches’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 61 Verso:
Sketches of Two Churches 1831
D25638
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 61a
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 94 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘River’ centre left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
There are two sketches of churches on this page. The top sketch shows a church with a spire by a ‘River’, while the bottom sketch, which is harder to read, is of a church with no spire but with pinnacles at the four corners of its low tower.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Sketches of Two Churches 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, 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-sketches-of-two-churches-r1133998, accessed 19 September 2024.