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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Margate, London and Surrey c.1829-45 > Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Church Spire among Wooded Hills, Probably in Kent c.1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Church Spire among Wooded Hills, Probably in Kent’ c.1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
A Church Spire among Wooded Hills, Probably in Kent c.1830
D35780
Turner Bequest CCCLXIII 12a
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, this distant church with a slender spire rising above wooded hills is unidentified, but is likely in Kent given the identified subjects elsewhere in this sketchbook; see the Introduction. The same building appears to be shown in more detail on folio 13 recto opposite (D35781), and see also folio 14 recto (D35783).

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Church Spire among Wooded Hills, Probably in Kent 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-a-church-spire-among-wooded-hills-probably-in-kent-r1183743, accessed 20 May 2024.