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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Val d'Aosta Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Verso:
Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon 1833
D29201
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 86a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘12’, ‘6’
 
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. Here Turner has sketched the north side of Holy Trinity Church, noting ‘12’ windows to the nave clerestory, and ‘6’ windows to the choir and sanctuary.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Holy Trinity Church, 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-holy-trinity-church-stratford-upon-avon-r1144749, accessed 25 April 2024.