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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Interior of St Andrew Undershaft, London 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Interior of St Andrew Undershaft, London’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
The Interior of St Andrew Undershaft, London 1796–7
D01169
Turner Bequest XXXVII 52
Pencil, watercolour and gouache, with pen and black and brown ink on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 52’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The composition continues across folio 27 recto opposite (D01170; Turner Bequest XXXVII 53). The identification of this City of London church is due to the architectural historian Christopher Wilson. The Baroque altar at the right was removed in the nineteenth century.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Interior of St Andrew Undershaft, London 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-interior-of-st-andrew-undershaft-london-r1149861, accessed 14 May 2024.