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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Holy Trinity Church, Margate c.1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Holy Trinity Church, Margate’ c.1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
?Holy Trinity Church, Margate c.1832
D27313
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 206 x 86 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘?M Church’ top centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘26’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX 26’ top left, inverted
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, this sketch of a gothic tower may depict the (lost) Holy Trinity Church in Margate. For more information on the Kentish views in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Holy Trinity Church, Margate c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-holy-trinity-church-margate-r1181449, accessed 25 April 2024.