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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > North of England 1797-1801 > North of England Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Alnwick: St Michael's Church 1797

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Alnwick: St Michael's Church’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
Alnwick: St Michael’s Church 1797
D00950
Turner Bequest XXXIV 43
Pencil on white wove paper, 270 x 210 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘43’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXIV 43’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Alnwick’s parish church from the west, with its heavily buttressed tower. David Hill notes the steep mound on which the church was built, and the consequent need for sturdy, multiple-stepped buttresses to support the tower. Harry Madgwick points out that the well in the foreground was removed in road-widening.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Alnwick: St Michael’s Church 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, 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-alnwick-st-michaels-church-r1150106, accessed 25 April 2024.