Joseph Mallord William Turner

Ruins of St Andrew’s Church, Walberswick

c.1824

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 118 × 115 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D18262
Turner Bequest CCIX 54

Catalogue entry

This series of sketches shows the ruins St Andrew’s Church at Walberswick near Southwold, Suffolk (see Tate D18261; Turner Bequest CCIX 53a). Turner has inscribed notes which appear to read ‘Southwold [?Ruins]’ and ‘Dun Monastery’, the latter probably referring to the ruined All Saints’ Church at Dunwich (see Tate D18237; Turner Bequest CCIX 41a).
The ruins recorded on Tate D18273; Turner Bequest CCIX 60 may also be connected to these sketches.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

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