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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of St Andrew's Church, Penrith and Other Churches; and Penrith Castle 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of St Andrew's Church, Penrith and Other Churches; and Penrith Castle’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Recto:
Sketches of St Andrew’s Church, Penrith and Other Churches; and Penrith Castle 1831
D25618
Turner Bequest CCLXIV 49
Pencil on white wove paper, 94 x 74 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘49’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIV – 49’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned to the left are four sketches; at the top, an unidentified church with a spire and, to its right, a rough sketch that may represent the tower of another church. Beneath this is a small sketch of the ruins of Penrith Castle (see folio 48 verso; D25617). At the bottom of the page is a sketch of St Andrew’s Church Penrith from the south, with another sketch of the church tower, part of the earlier thirteenth-century church, boxed off above.

Thomas Ardill
September 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Sketches of St Andrew’s Church, Penrith and Other Churches; and Penrith Castle 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2009, 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-sketches-of-st-andrews-church-penrith-and-other-churches-and-r1133978, accessed 25 April 2024.