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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of a Distant Church; Buildings on the River or Seafront 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of a Distant Church; Buildings on the River or Seafront’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
Sketches of a Distant Church; Buildings on the River or Seafront 1839
D28656
Turner Bequest CCXCI 68 a
Pencil on cream laid writing paper, 156 x 100 mm
Watermarked ‘[& c]omp’
Inscribed in pen and black ink by Henry Scott Trimmer ‘No 297 Contains 55 | Leaves = Pencil Sketches – | on both sides – ’; signed in black ink by Charles Turner; signed in pencil by Charles Locke Eastlake ‘C.L.E.’ and by John Prescott Knight ‘JPK’ (all inverted) bottom ascending to centre
Inscribed 9 top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough jottings of towers and spires extend onto the paste-down opposite (D41218). This page is predominantly taken up with the endorsement and signatures of Henry Scott Trimmer, Charles Turner, Charles Locke Eastlake and John Prescott Knght, the executors of the Turner Bequest.
Technical notes:
The leather loops have stained the paper at top and bottom.

Alice Rylance-Watson
August 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sketches of a Distant Church; Buildings on the River or Seafront 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 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-sketches-of-a-distant-church-buildings-on-the-river-or-r1150940, accessed 20 September 2024.