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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Northampton: A Street, with All Saints' Church 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Northampton: A Street, with All Saints' Church’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
Northampton: A Street, with All Saints’ Church 1794
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Turner Bequest XIX 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 181 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Dressings | 3 First Dentels & the last’ top right against a continuation of the cupola of the church, ‘o Pediment | x Do urns [Ionic]’ centre right, and with colour notes including ‘D’, ‘W’, ‘DT’, ‘B’ and ‘6’ within drawing
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘12’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XIX 12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner used this drawing for his untraced watercolour design for the Pocket Magazine,1 engraved in July 1795. He returned to the scene in a later Midland tour, of 1830, when preparing subjects for the Picturesque Views in England and Wales, and made a watercolour of a parliamentary election at Northampton, seen from a similar viewpoint to this drawing (Tate T12321).2 It was not engraved. The church of All Saints, Northampton was rebuilt in the 1670s after a fire destroyed much of the town, and re-consecrated in 1680. A colonnaded portico was added in 1701, and the cupola placed on the tower in 1704.
1
Wilton 1979, p.312 no.118.
2
Ibid., p.403 no.881, reproduced.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in black ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Northampton: A Street, with All Saints’ Church 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-northampton-a-street-with-all-saints-church-r1140736, accessed 26 April 2024.