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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sandwich; Near the Quay: ?Woodnesborough Church in the Distance c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sandwich; Near the Quay: ?Woodnesborough Church in the Distance’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 42 Recto:
Sandwich; Near the Quay: ?Woodnesborough Church in the Distance circa 1816–19
D10478
Turner Bequest CXL 36
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ?‘1812’ lower right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘36’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXL 36’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This subject does not seem to be the River Thames, as Finberg suggested. It is probably Sandwich and the distant church with its Dutch or German-looking cupola either St Peter’s, Sandwich, or more likely St Mary’s, Woodnesborough, a little way inland from the town. The date is odd as the sketchbook is made up of paper watermarked 1813.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Sandwich; Near the Quay: ?Woodnesborough Church in the Distance c.1816–19 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-sandwich-near-the-quay-woodnesborough-church-in-the-distance-r1131471, accessed 26 April 2024.