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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Saint Edmund's Church, Southwold; Coastal View c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Saint Edmund's Church, Southwold; Coastal View’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Recto:
?Saint Edmund’s Church, Southwold; Coastal View c.1824
D18252
Turner Bequest CCIX 49
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘al[lee] | 18[19]’
Inscribed in pencil ‘[?Blue Light]’ far left, ‘W’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This study of a church has been rendered with the sketchbook turned upside down. Previously unidentified, this cataloguer proposes that the church may be Saint Edmund’s at Southwold, Suffolk. Constructed over a period of sixty years from the 1430s, Saint Edmund’s Church is celebrated for its East Anglian flushwork, especially that of the tower.1 Details of the window tracery have been recorded in jottings above, below and to the left of the drawing of the church.
There is a separate view of the coast executed with the sketchbook turned vertically. The inscription above the view may read ‘Blue Light’.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

1
‘St Edmund, Southwold’, Suffolk Churches, accessed 21 January 2015, http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/Southwold.htm

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?Saint Edmund’s Church, Southwold; Coastal View 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-saint-edmunds-church-southwold-coastal-view-r1181134, accessed 19 September 2024.