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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Midlands Town or Village with a Church Spire 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Midlands Town or Village with a Church Spire’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
A Midlands Town or Village with a Church Spire 1830
D22373
Turner Bequest CCXL 28
Pencil on white wove paper, 68 x 110 mm
Partial watermark ‘Gat | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘28’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXL – 28’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This Midlands subject currently remains unidentified. There appear to be houses receding to the right, with a church spire beyond trees on the left.

Matthew Imms
August 2013

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Midlands Town or Village with a Church Spire 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-town-or-village-with-a-church-spire-r1148523, accessed 27 April 2024.