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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ruined Church, Perhaps near Dieppe 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ruined Church, Perhaps near Dieppe’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
A Ruined Church, Perhaps near Dieppe 1845
D35552
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 37
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 86 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, at the bottom Tuner shows a ruined church or abbey from the south-east, with hills and trees beyond. Above is a view of what appears to be the tower of the same building, drawn from the opposite direction, with the roof of what may be a chapter house or small bell tower below to the left. The structure is as yet unidentified, but may have been in the vicinity of Dieppe (see under folio 31 recto; D35541).
The blank recto is inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘37’ and stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 37’ at the bottom right. For numerous instances of blank, unaccessioned rectos in this sketchbook, see the technical notes in the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Ruined Church, Perhaps near Dieppe 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-ruined-church-perhaps-near-dieppe-r1183974, accessed 05 April 2026.