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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner St Nicholas' Church, Yarmouth c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St Nicholas' Church, Yarmouth’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
St Nicholas’ Church, Yarmouth c.1824
D18190
Turner Bequest CCIX 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘[al]lee | [18]19’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘F’ centre left, ‘S’, ‘B’ centre towards bottom left, ‘XB’ centre towards bottom
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a study of St Nicholas’ Church at Yarmouth, Norfolk (see Tate D18189; Turner Bequest CCIX 17a). The cupola of the eighteenth-century Fishermen’s Hospital can be seen to the left of the church. Turner has also jotted a detail of some gothic tracery at rear and part of another building at top right.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘St Nicholas’ Church, Yarmouth c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-st-nicholas-church-yarmouth-r1181072, accessed 23 April 2024.