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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Interior of a Church during a Sermon 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Interior of a Church during a Sermon’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Verso:
Interior of a Church during a Sermon 1796–7
D01151
Turner Bequest XXXVII 34
Pencil and gouache with pen and brown ink on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 34’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The composition continues across folio 18 recto opposite (D01152; Turner Bequest XXXVII 35). A view apparently of the interior of the same church is on folios 18 verso–19 recto (D01153–D01154; Turner Bequest XXXVII 36–37). We are standing in the south aisle, looking towards the east chapel, before which is a distinctively traceried screen that appears again in the next drawing, seen beyond the chancel.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Interior of a Church during a Sermon 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-interior-of-a-church-during-a-sermon-r1149843, accessed 23 April 2024.