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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Cheshire, Derbyshire, North Wales ... > Tabley No.3 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Men in a Church c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Men in a Church’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
Men in a Church circa 1808
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Turner Bequest CV 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 108 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘26’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CV 26’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg’s suggestion cannot be confirmed, especially as the old Houses of Parliament were destroyed by fire in 1836. To the present writer the setting looks more like a cathedral or large church, with Perpendicular choir stalls. Chester Cathedral has fine examples, and could easily have been visited from Tabley in 1808.
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David Blayney Brown
June 2010

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Men in a Church c.1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, 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-men-in-a-church-r1134536, accessed 24 April 2024.