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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of the Church and Other Buildings at Stratford-upon-Avon 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 79 Recto:
Two Sketches of the Church and Other Buildings at Stratford-upon-Avon 1833
D29186
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 79
Pencil on white wove paper, 190 x 113 mm
Inscribed illegibly by Turner in pencil
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘79’ top left, running vertically, and ‘320’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 79’ top right, running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See Introduction to the sketchbook for the presence of a small run of sketches at Stratford-upon-Avon dating from 1833. This page contains two, drawn with the page upright, working down the page from the outer edge:
i. Street and church tower at Stratford, the same as noted on the verso (D29187; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 79a).
ii. Detail of church and porch at Stratford.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches of the Church and Other Buildings at Stratford-upon-Avon 1833 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, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-of-the-church-and-other-buildings-at-stratford-r1144734, accessed 29 March 2024.