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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Canterbury Cathedral to the West from St Martin's Church c.1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Canterbury Cathedral to the West from St Martin's Church’ c.1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Canterbury Cathedral to the West from St Martin’s Church c.1830
D35770
Turner Bequest CCCLXIII 7a
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 98 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the drawing continues across folio 8 recto opposite (D35771). The viewpoint is north-east of St Martin’s Church (seen on the other page), looking west to Canterbury Cathedral from what is now the Querns Road area north of St Martin’s Hill. The modern building at the bottom left here is Canterbury Prison, with the towers of St Augustine’s Monastery beyond. A separate study of the landscape beyond appears to the above the horizon. There is a less detailed reprise of the whole view on folio 8 verso (D35772). Finberg wrongly described the view as ‘from Dane John’,1 which lies south-west of the Cathedral.
For other drawings of Canterbury in this sketchbook and elsewhere, see under folio 3 recto (D35791).

Matthew Imms
September 2016

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.1177.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Canterbury Cathedral to the West from St Martin’s Church c.1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-canterbury-cathedral-to-the-west-from-st-martins-church-r1183733, accessed 26 April 2024.