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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Old Isleworth Church, from the River c.1789

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Old Isleworth Church, from the River’ c.1789
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Old Isleworth Church, from the River c.1789
D00040
Turner Bequest II 22
Pencil on white laid paper, 160 x 249 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘3’ below left of centre within the drawing
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘22’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘II 22’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The basis for a finished watercolour of about 1789, measuring 272 x 380 mm, formerly in the collection of Thomas Hardwick and later P.C. Hardwick, and offered at auction at Christie’s, London, 9 April 1920 (147).
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Old Isleworth Church, from the River c.1789 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-old-isleworth-church-from-the-river-r1140195, accessed 20 April 2024.