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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner All Saints Church, Northampton 1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘All Saints Church, Northampton’ 1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
All Saints Church, Northampton 1830
D22353
Turner Bequest CCXL 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 68 x 110 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘18’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCXL – 18’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a slight continuation of buildings near the west front of All Saints Church, Northampton, seen on folio 17 verso opposite (D22352). As noted by Eric Shanes,1 the sketch informed Turner’s watercolour The Northampton Election, 6 December 1830 of about 1830–1 (Tate T12321).2

Matthew Imms
August 2013

1
See Shanes 1979, pp.38, 156; Shanes 1990, p.223; and Shanes 2004, p.142.
2
Wilton 1979, p.403 no.881, reproduced.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘All Saints Church, Northampton 1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-all-saints-church-northampton-r1148503, accessed 27 September 2024.