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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views of a Midlands Church, Ruins and Other Buildings 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views of a Midlands Church, Ruins and Other Buildings’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso:
Views of a Midlands Church, Ruins and Other Buildings 1830
D22362
Turner Bequest CCXL 22a
Pencil on white wove paper, 68 x 110 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These Midlands subjects, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, currently remain unidentified. There are several separate sketches, including a church with a spire and trees at the top left, what may be a ruined castle or gateway at the lower centre, and what is possibly the same structure at the top right.

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Views of a Midlands Church, Ruins and Other Buildings 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-views-of-a-midlands-church-ruins-and-other-buildings-r1148512, accessed 19 September 2024.