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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Northleach, Gloucestershire: The South Porch of the Church of St Peter and St Paul 1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Northleach, Gloucestershire: The South Porch of the Church of St Peter and St Paul’ 1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Northleach, Gloucestershire: The South Porch of the Church of St Peter and St Paul 1795
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Turner Bequest XXVI 69v
Pencil on white wove paper, 264 x 203 mm
Finberg first listed this sheet as showing ‘Hereford Cathedral’, but by 1918 had identified it as Northleach, probably at the suggestion of C.F. Bell. The south porch is one of the most impressive features of the altogether impressive fifteenth-century church at Northleach, one of the grandest of the Cotswold wool-churches.
The drawing is inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Northleach, Gloucestershire: The South Porch of the Church of St Peter and St Paul 1795 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-northleach-gloucestershire-the-south-porch-of-the-church-of-r1140950, accessed 20 September 2024.