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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Church of St Sepulchre, Northampton: The Spire 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Verso:
The Church of St Sepulchre, Northampton: The Spire 1794
D40751
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[...]’ bottom centre beside spire
Stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue,1 this page is blank except for a slight continuation of the spire of the church drawn on folio 7 recto opposite (D00213).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.28.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘The Church of St Sepulchre, Northampton: The Spire 1794 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-church-of-st-sepulchre-northampton-the-spire-r1140730, accessed 17 July 2026.