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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sleaford: St Denys's Church from the West 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sleaford: St Denys's Church from the West’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Recto:
Sleaford: St Denys’s Church from the West 1797
D00994
Turner Bequest XXXIV 83
Pencil on white wove paper, 210 x 270 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom left
Stamped in black ‘XXXIV 83’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is drawn with the page turned horizontally. A small finished watercolour based on this drawing, made for Benjamin Howlett’s Select Views in the County of Lincoln (1801; Tate impression: T05918), is at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Providence, Rhode Island.1 Turner had been asked to consider making other views for Howlett, but these were not realised, although he did make careful pencil drawings for them; see the studies of Louth and Boston, in this book, between folios 84 recto and 87 recto (D00990–D00993; Turner Bequest XXXIV 80–82).
1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.326 no.240, reproduced.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Sleaford: St Denys’s Church from the West 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-sleaford-st-denyss-church-from-the-west-r1150152, accessed 24 April 2024.