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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Mary's Collegiate Church, Haddington 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Mary's Collegiate Church, Haddington’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Haddington 1831
D25966
Turner Bequest CCLXVII 22
Pencil on off-white wove writing paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘22’ bottom left inverted and ‘271’ top left inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXVII – 22’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The church in this sketch can be identified as St Mary’s Collegiate Church at Haddington by comparison with sketches on folio 44 and 45 verso (D26000, D26003; CCLXVII 44, 45a), which were identified by Gerald Finley.1 Here the church is seen from across the River Tyne to the south-east. To the right of St Mary’s is Nungate Bridge. A boat with several figures is shown on the nearside of the river, and there is a waxing crescent moon in the sky at the top left and reflected in the water beneath.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

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Gerald E. Finley, ‘J.M.W. Turner and Sir Walter Scott: Iconography of a Tour’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol.31, 1972, p.385.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘St Mary’s Collegiate Church, Haddington 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-st-marys-collegiate-church-haddington-r1134336, accessed 19 September 2024.