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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Pontefract: All Saints' Church Tower and the Ruined South Transept 1797

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pontefract: All Saints' Church Tower and the Ruined South Transept’ 1797
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Verso:
Pontefract: All Saints’ Church Tower and the Ruined South Transept 1797
D40561
Pencil on white wove paper, 210 x 270 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram towards centre left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not mentioned by Finberg,1 this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 8 recto opposite (D00913), made with the page turned horizontally.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.70.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Pontefract: All Saints’ Church Tower and the Ruined South Transept 1797 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-pontefract-all-saints-church-tower-and-the-ruined-south-r1150068, accessed 21 November 2024.