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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Birmingham: ?Christ Church and St Philip's Church; Buildings and a Crane ?beside a Canal 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Birmingham: ?Christ Church and St Philip's Church; Buildings and a Crane ?beside a Canal’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Birmingham: ?Christ Church and St Philip’s Church; Buildings and a Crane ?beside a Canal 1830
D21996
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Partial watermark ‘nard | 20’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘13’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVIII – 13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
It is not clear whether the spire, perhaps of Christ Church, Birmingham (demolished in 1899), and the nearly dome of St Philip’s Church (later Birmingham Cathedral) on the skyline were drawn from the same viewpoint as the foreground, where small buildings and a crane are shown, perhaps by the Birmingham and Worcester Canal.
For other views of Birmingham, see under folio 3 verso (D21980).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Birmingham: ?Christ Church and St Philip’s Church; Buildings and a Crane ?beside a Canal 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-birmingham-christ-church-and-st-philips-church-buildings-and-r1148638, accessed 23 April 2024.