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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Views in Sussex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Tower of the Church of St Thomas à Becket, Brightling 1810

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Tower of the Church of St Thomas à Becket, Brightling’ 1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Tower of the Church of St Thomas à Becket, Brightling 1810
D10330
Turner Bequest CXXXVIII 10a
Pencil on white wove paper, 200 x 325 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The verso of D10329; Turner Bequest CXXXVIII 10, which carries a view of Rosehill (now Brightling) Park, the estate of John Fuller. Invisible to Finberg, as it was then laid down, the present subject consists of a small group of trees and two versions of the same church tower, identifiable as that of St Thomas à Becket, Brightling, adjacent to the park drawn on the recto.

David Blayney Brown
April 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Tower of the Church of St Thomas à Becket, Brightling 1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2011, 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-the-tower-of-the-church-of-st-thomas-a-becket-brightling-r1131374, accessed 19 April 2024.