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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Manchester Collegiate Church 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Manchester Collegiate Church’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
Manchester Collegiate Church 1831
D25702
Turner Bequest CCLXV 34
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 59 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘34’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLXV 34’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Manchester Collegiate Church (now the Cathedral) is seen here from the south-west, perhaps from the bridge that preceded the later Victoria Bridge. Although the tower still looks very much the same as in Turner’s sketch, it is in fact not the same tower that turner would have seen as that was demolished in 1864 and replaced in 1868 with an exact replica (apart from being six feet higher). Turner drew the view in the opposite direction on folio 35 (D25704).

Thomas Ardill
September 2011

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Manchester Collegiate Church 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-manchester-collegiate-church-r1134066, accessed 26 April 2024.