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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800 > South Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bristol: North-West View of the Tower of St Mary Redcliffe Church c.1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bristol: North-West View of the Tower of St Mary Redcliffe Church’ c.1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 91 Recto:
Bristol: North-West View of the Tower of St Mary Redcliffe Church c.1795
D00661
Turner Bequest XXVI 99
Pencil on white wove paper, 264 x 203 mm
Watermark ‘J WHATMAN’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Queen with a Crown | and Book’ top right and ‘The Stone Grey & Brown | [?N] West St Mary Redcliff’
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 99’ bottom right
Stylistically the drawing of St Mary Redcliffe does not belong to 1795 but more probably to 1793–4; compare Tate D00355 and D00356 (Turner Bequest XXII B, C). It cannot therefore have originally formed part of this sketchbook, but should perhaps be grouped with drawings made in the West Country earlier in the decade, for example at Hereford and St Briavel’s; compare Tate D00150 and D00376 (Turner Bequest XIII E, XXIII B).
Technical notes:
The sheet is discoloured from prolonged exposure.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Bristol: North-West View of the Tower of St Mary Redcliffe Church c.1795 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-bristol-north-west-view-of-the-tower-of-st-mary-redcliffe-r1140980, accessed 09 February 2025.