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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loose Studies of Northern France > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Church of St Mary de Haura, Shoreham 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church of St Mary de Haura, Shoreham’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Church of St Mary de Haura, Shoreham 1826
D34557
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 174
Pencil on white wove paper, 231 x 367 mm
Watermark ‘IVY MILL | 1816’
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV 174’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of the church of St Mary de Haura belongs to a group of views of the West Sussex town of Shoreham which Turner worked onto white ‘Ivy Mill’ watermarked paper as he embarked on his 1826 tour of Northern France.1 A list of these is provided in the Introduction to this section.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.23.
Technical Note:
The sheet is one quarter of a larger sheet folded into four. On the other three quadrants feature D34556, D34558, D34559 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 173; CCCXLIV d 175; CCCXLIV d 176).
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil with the note ‘T. 34556/9’ in the bottom left-hand corner.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Church of St Mary de Haura, Shoreham 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-church-of-st-mary-de-haura-shoreham-r1185610, accessed 11 May 2024.