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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stratford-upon-Avon; Holy Trinity Church Looking over the Bridge 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stratford-upon-Avon; Holy Trinity Church Looking over the Bridge’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Recto:
Stratford-upon-Avon; Holy Trinity Church Looking over the Bridge 1833
D29208
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 90
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘90’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 90’ top left, inverted
 
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, including the present example, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects. The view records the town with Holy Trinity Church over the bridge, with a detail of the church tower and spire above right. It is continued to the right to include the Guild Chapel on the facing page (D29207; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 89a).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Stratford-upon-Avon; Holy Trinity Church Looking over the Bridge 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-stratford-upon-avon-holy-trinity-church-looking-over-the-r1144756, accessed 25 April 2024.