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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rotherham: The Bridge and Chapel of Our Lady, with the Parish Church of All Saints Beyond, Seen from the South-East 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rotherham: The Bridge and Chapel of Our Lady, with the Parish Church of All Saints Beyond, Seen from the South-East’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Rotherham: The Bridge and Chapel of Our Lady, with the Parish Church of All Saints Beyond, Seen from the South-East 1797
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Turner Bequest XXXV 1
Pencil on white wove paper, 274 x 370 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXV 1’ bottom left, descending vertically
The bridge with its chapel was built in about 1483, following the Will of the master of the grammar school. In Turner’s time the chapel had been converted into a gaol. In the late nineteenth century large Perpendicular-style windows were returned to the walls he has drawn here, filled in and pierced only by small lights. The subject was drawn with the page turned horizontally.
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Blank; inscribed by A.J. Finberg in pencil ‘Inventory XXXV (Schedule 141) | 141.1’.

Andrew Wilton
August 2010

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Rotherham: The Bridge and Chapel of Our Lady, with the Parish Church of All Saints Beyond, Seen from the South-East 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2010, 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-rotherham-the-bridge-and-chapel-of-our-lady-with-the-parish-r1150168, accessed 23 April 2024.