Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketches of St Andrew’s Church, Penrith and Other Churches; and Penrith Castle

1831

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Rokeby and Appleby Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 94 × 74 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D25618
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 49

Catalogue entry

With the sketchbook turned to the left are four sketches; at the top, an unidentified church with a spire and, to its right, a rough sketch that may represent the tower of another church. Beneath this is a small sketch of the ruins of Penrith Castle (see folio 48 verso; D25617). At the bottom of the page is a sketch of St Andrew’s Church Penrith from the south, with another sketch of the church tower, part of the earlier thirteenth-century church, boxed off above.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

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