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 21 Verso:
A Midlands Church, Bridge and Other Buildings 1830
D22360
Turner Bequest CCXL 21a
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. There are two main views, of a church with a spire beside a bridge below, and a more extensive group of buildings and trees above, with further architectural details at the top right.

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-r1148510, accessed 20 September 2024.