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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dudley: St Thomas's Church from the South-West 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dudley: St Thomas's Church from the South-West’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 44 Verso:
Dudley: St Thomas’s Church from the South-West 1830
D22406
Turner Bequest CCXL 44a
Pencil on white wove paper, 68 x 110 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As part of unpublished Turner research informed by local knowledge, Dr Bernard Richards has confirmed this subject, inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, as the spire of St Thomas’s Church from the road towards Brierley Hill,1 looking north-east along the High Street up the hill from Queen’s Cross. On the right may be the entrance to King Street, but only the general topography and the church spire remain unchanged. There is a related study on folio 45 verso (D22408).
For other views of Dudley, see under folio 39 recto (D22395).

Matthew Imms
August 2013

1
Conversation with the author, 14 May 2013.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Dudley: St Thomas’s Church from the South-West 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-dudley-st-thomass-church-from-the-south-west-r1148556, accessed 26 April 2024.