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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Studies of a Church Tower and Other Buildings, and of a Town 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Studies of a Church Tower and Other Buildings, and of a Town’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
Studies of a Church Tower and Other Buildings, and of a Town 1802
D04670
Turner Bequest LXXVI 16a
Pencil on white laid paper, 156 x 201 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXVI 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The sketch of a town appears at upper right. Neither this nor the church has been identified so far.

David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Studies of a Church Tower and Other Buildings, and of a Town 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, 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-studies-of-a-church-tower-and-other-buildings-and-of-a-town-r1133145, accessed 22 November 2024.