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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Interior of a Church, with Seated Figures 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Interior of a Church, with Seated Figures’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Interior of a Church, with Seated Figures 1796–7
D01153
Turner Bequest XXXVII 36
Pencil, brown and grey washes and white 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 – 36’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The composition continues across folio 19 recto opposite (D01154; Turner Bequest XXXVII 37). This is a second view of the interior of the church shown on folios 17 verso–18 recto (D01151–D01152; Turner Bequest XXXVII 34–35). The distinctive south aisle screen shown there reappears in, seen beyond the close screen separating the north aisle, which is the artist’s viewpoint, from the chancel.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Interior of a Church, with Seated Figures 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-with-seated-figures-r1149845, accessed 19 September 2024.