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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dronfield: The Church of St John the Baptist Seen from the Banks of a Stream 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dronfield: The Church of St John the Baptist Seen from the Banks of a Stream’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Dronfield: The Church of St John the Baptist Seen from the Banks of a Stream 1797
D00908
Turner Bequest XXXIV 3
Pencil on white wove paper, 210 x 270 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘3’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XXXIV 3’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is drawn with the page turned horizontally.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Dronfield: The Church of St John the Baptist Seen from the Banks of a Stream 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, 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-dronfield-the-church-of-st-john-the-baptist-seen-from-the-r1150063, accessed 18 April 2024.