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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Louth: St James's Church Seen from the South-East 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Louth: St James's Church Seen from the South-East’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 83 Verso:
Louth: St James’s Church Seen from the South-East 1797
D40563
Pencil on white wove paper, 210 x 270 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram left of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not mentioned by Finberg,1 this page is blank, except the for continuation of the top of the spire of Louth Church from the drawing on folio 84 recto opposite (D00990; Turner Bequest XXXIV 80). The subject is drawn with the page turned horizontally.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.73.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Louth: St James’s Church Seen from the South-East 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-louth-st-jamess-church-seen-from-the-south-east-r1150146, accessed 26 April 2024.