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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?St Margaret's Church, Lowestoft c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?St Margaret's Church, Lowestoft’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Recto:
?St Margaret’s Church, Lowestoft c.1824
D18236
Turner Bequest CCIX 41
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘[al]lee | [18]19’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned upside down, here Turner has made a partial study of a church. This may be St Margaret’s at Lowestoft on the Suffolk coast. The crenellation of the tower and the form of the window tracery (recorded by Turner in detail jottings above the building) resembles that of St Margaret’s. Dating to the fifteenth century, the church was remodelled in 1871.1 A further cursory sketch has been rendered with the sketchbook turned vertically. It shows the profile of cliffs on the coast with a lighthouse. This also may be a distant view of the lighthouse and coast at Lowestoft (Tate D18225–D18226; Turner Bequest CCIX 35a–36).

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

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‘Church History’, St Margaret’s Lowestoft, accessed 15 January 2015, http://www.stmargaretslowestoft.co.uk/st-margarets-church/church-history

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?St Margaret’s Church, Lowestoft c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-st-margarets-church-lowestoft-r1181118, accessed 22 September 2024.