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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tamworth: Ladybridge, the Castle and St Editha's Church 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tamworth: Ladybridge, the Castle and St Editha's Church’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
Tamworth: Ladybridge, the Castle and St Editha’s Church 1830
D22083
Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 120 x 203 mm
Partial watermark ‘R Ba | 18’
Inscribed by Turner ‘Tam’ bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘56’ bottom left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXVIII – 56’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this sketch continues across folio 57 verso opposite (D22082; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 55c). Here the tower of St Editha’s Church is shown to the right, of the prospect towards Ladybridge and Tamworth Castle (apparently less prominent here than in reality) along the River Anker. Later developments and trees now obscure the view.
There are related views on folios 56 verso and 57 recto (D22080, D22081; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 55a, 55b). For Turner’s England and Wales watercolour and other views of Tamworth, see under folio 52 verso (D22072; Turner Bequest CCXXXVIII 51c).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Tamworth: Ladybridge, the Castle and St Editha’s Church 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-tamworth-ladybridge-the-castle-and-st-edithas-church-r1148724, accessed 25 April 2024.