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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Midlands Church, Bridge and Other Buildings 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Midlands Church, Bridge and Other Buildings’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Verso:
A Midlands Church, Bridge and Other Buildings 1830
D22358
Turner Bequest CCXL 20a
Pencil on white wove paper, 68 x 110 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This Midlands subject, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, currently remains unidentified. The main drawing appears to comprise a church with a spire by a bridge. It is unclear whether the view is continuous with the colonnaded building, trees and bridge to the right, while there are separate studies of a spire and a Gothic church above, probably showing different aspects of the church fist mentioned. There is a very slight continuation to the left on folio 21 recto opposite (D22359).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Midlands Church, Bridge and Other Buildings 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-midlands-church-bridge-and-other-buildings-r1148508, accessed 09 May 2024.