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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Town and Church on a Hill, Posssibly Rye, Sussex c.1810

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Town and Church on a Hill, Posssibly Rye, Sussex’ c.1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Town and Church on a Hill, Posssibly Rye, Sussex circa 1810
D08974
Turner Bequest CXXVII 8a
Pencil on white wove paper, 126 x 202 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Except in showing a church on a hill, this view has nothing in common with that on D08970 (CXXVII 6), despite Finberg’s note to this effect; nor does either show Richmond, North Yorkshire. The first view is of East Grinstead, Sussex, and the present one possibly shows St Mary’s Church, Rye, although this is unconfirmed. For other Sussex subjects, see the Introduction to the sketchbook.
Technical notes:
This page is a face of one of the loose bifolio sheets which form the majority of the so-called Sandycombe and Yorkshire sketchbook, along with a few single leaves. The sheets were not bound, but folded inside each other in a sequence which is not entirely recoverable (see the sketchbook’s Introduction for a suggested order). When unfolded, this page is continuous with D08969 (CXXVII 5); the measurements given above are for the present work alone.

Matthew Imms
January 2012

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Town and Church on a Hill, Posssibly Rye, Sussex c.1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-town-and-church-on-a-hill-posssibly-rye-sussex-r1134685, accessed 25 April 2024.