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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales 1798 > North Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner View up a Town Street towards a Large Church 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View up a Town Street towards a Large Church’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
View up a Town Street towards a Large Church 1798
D01392
Turner Bequest XXXIX 37
Pencil on white wove writing paper, 170 x 266 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘X’ near centre
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘37’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXIX 37’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. The church has all the appearance of an abbatial structure, and may be the Abbey at Shrewsbury, which in its present state, however, has a tower at its west end, not over the crossing.
Verso:
Blank, save for a pencil stroke; inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bromfield’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.
This inscription refers not to the town depicted on the recto but to the view on folio 39 recto opposite (D01455; Turner Bequest XXXIX 91).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View up a Town Street towards a Large Church 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-up-a-town-street-towards-a-large-church-r1173621, accessed 26 April 2024.