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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?The Ruins of All Saints' Church, Dunwich; Coastal View of Dunwich c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?The Ruins of All Saints' Church, Dunwich; Coastal View of Dunwich’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Verso:
?The Ruins of All Saints’ Church, Dunwich; Coastal View of Dunwich c.1824
D18257
Turner Bequest CCIX 51a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has made a cursory sketch of the hollowed ruins of All Saints’ Church at Dunwich on the Suffolk North Sea coast (see Tate D18237; Turner Bequest CCIX 41a). As one can see from the drawing, the Church stands at the very periphery of the cliff. One hundred years after this drawing was made, the entirety of All Saints’ Church had fallen into the North Sea below, with the exception of one stone buttress.
With the sketchbook turned upside down, Turner has rendered a view of Dunwich which extends onto the folio opposite (Tate D18258; Turner Bequest CCIX 52).

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘?The Ruins of All Saints’ Church, Dunwich; Coastal View of Dunwich 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-the-ruins-of-all-saints-church-dunwich-coastal-view-of-r1181139, accessed 23 April 2024.