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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Wrexham Church from the East: Pinnacles 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wrexham Church from the East: Pinnacles’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
Wrexham Church from the East: Pinnacles 1794
D41421
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 111 mm
Stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram centre left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue,1 this page is blank except for the tops of two pinnacles continued from the drawing of Wrexham Church on the following page, which has been largely torn out; the drawing continues on the surviving stub, folio 17 recto (D41432; Turner Bequest XIX 16a), and on the rest of the torn-out page, Tate D00402 (Turner Bequest XXIII b), which is kept separately (see also the sketchbook’s introduction).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.29.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Wrexham Church from the East: Pinnacles 1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-wrexham-church-from-the-east-pinnacles-r1140742, accessed 17 July 2026.