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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Hesperides (2) Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Church and Cottages by the Thames: ?Clifton Hampden 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church and Cottages by the Thames: ?Clifton Hampden’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
Church and Cottages by the Thames: ?Clifton Hampden 1805
D05887
Turner Bequest XCIV 34a
Pencil on white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 143 x 228 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Hill’s suggestion of Clifton Hampden is probably correct, the sketch showing the bluff on the Oxfordshire bank of the Thames on which the church stands. As Hill further notes, a sketch inside the back cover (D40637) seems to be of the same site from a different angle. Originally from the twelfth century, the church would have been derelict when Turner saw it. The present church of St Michael and All Angels, incorporating the early remains, was designed by George Gilbert Scott, 1843–64.

David Blayney Brown
December 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Church and Cottages by the Thames: ?Clifton Hampden 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2007, 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-church-and-cottages-by-the-thames-clifton-hampden-r1130110, accessed 24 April 2024.