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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Church with a Spire, Surrounded by Old Houses 1797-8

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Church with a Spire, Surrounded by Old Houses’ 1797-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Church with a Spire, Surrounded by Old Houses 1797–8
D02371
Turner Bequest LI D
Pencil on white wove paper, 207 x 267 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘Li.D.’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LI – D’ bottom right
This scene in a town with a large Perpendicular church may have been drawn in Lincolnshire on Turner’s return from the north in 1797; however, it is more probably one of the towns he visited in connection with his work on the Oxford Almanack towards the end of the decade. For the dating of this drawing and contemporary views in the Oxford area, see under Tate D02358 (Turner Bequest L Q).
Technical notes:
The sheet has been folded vertically down the centre. It is one of a sequence of sixteen Yorkshire and other subjects included in the present subsection which were executed on uniform sheets of paper, as discussed and listed in the Introduction.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Church with a Spire, Surrounded by Old Houses 1797–8 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-a-church-with-a-spire-surrounded-by-old-houses-r1150284, accessed 20 April 2024.