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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner All Saints Church, Bakewell ?1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘All Saints Church, Bakewell’ ?1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
All Saints Church, Bakewell ?1831
D22208
Turner Bequest CCXXXIX 32
Pencil on white wove paper, 191 x 114 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘32’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXIX – 32’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, the top third is occupied by a view of All Saints Church, Bakewell, as identified by Ian Warrell,1 from the south-west. As noted under folio 30 verso (D22205), where other Bakewell views are mentioned, the church lacked its crossing spire and tower at the time of Turner’s visit, the medieval structure having been taken down not long earlier and not yet replaced.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

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Ian Warrell, notes from 1993 and later in Tate catalogue files.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘All Saints Church, Bakewell ?1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, 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-all-saints-church-bakewell-r1148854, accessed 18 April 2024.