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

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

Joseph Mallord William Turner Wrexham Church from the East: Pinnacles 1794

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Wrexham Church from the East: Pinnacles’ 1794
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Wrexham Church from the East: Pinnacles 1794
D41432
Turner Bequest XIX 16a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 5 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue1 but subsequently given the pseudo-Turner Bequest number XIX 16a, this is the surviving stub of a page which had been largely torn out, with the tops of two pinnacles of Wrexham Church; the drawing, made with the page turned vertically, continues a little way onto folio 16 verso (D41421). The rest of the drawing survives on a torn-out page (Tate D00402; Turner Bequest XXIII b), which is kept separately (see also the sketchbook’s introduction).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.29.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Wrexham Church from the East: Pinnacles 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-wrexham-church-from-the-east-pinnacles-r1140743, accessed 17 July 2026.