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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stettin: St John's Church; Stettin: St John's and St James's Churches 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stettin: St John's Church; Stettin: St John's and St James's Churches’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Recto
Stettin: St John's Church; Stettin: St John's and St James's Churches 1835
D31092
Turner Bequest CCCVII 37
Pencil on cream laid paper, 162 x 89 mm
Watermark double ‘X’ mark
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘37’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–37’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Orientated inversely to one another, here Turner depicts St John’s Church at Stettin and a view of the same town with St John’s Church at left and St James’s at right atop a hill.
For other sketches of Stettin see Tate D31083–D31093, D31095–D31106; Turner Bequest CCCVII 32a–37a, 38a–44.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Stettin: St John's Church; Stettin: St John's and St James's Churches 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-stettin-st-johns-church-stettin-st-johns-and-st-jamess-r1186965, accessed 26 April 2024.