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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stettin: St James's Church; Stettin: View of the Castle Showing the Octagonal Tower 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stettin: St James's Church; Stettin: View of the Castle Showing the Octagonal Tower’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 35 Recto
Stettin: St James's Church; Stettin: View of the Castle Showing the Octagonal Tower 1835
D31090
Turner Bequest CCCVII 36
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermark ‘cfw & s’
Inscribed in pencil ‘5’, ‘W’ top centre, ‘[...]’ top centre descending, ‘[...]’ top right descending
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘36’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–36’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These two sketches depict aspects of Stettin (now Szczecin in Poland). Turner pictures the Church of St James horizontally across the page, with a study of the Ducal Castle and its Octagonal Tower at top right. ‘5’ and ‘W’ are inscribed at top centre along with a number of other illegible inscriptions.
For other sketches of Stettin see Tate D31083–D31093, D31095–D31106; Turner Bequest CCCVII 32a–37a, 38a–44.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Stettin: St James's Church; Stettin: View of the Castle Showing the Octagonal Tower 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-stettin-st-jamess-church-stettin-view-of-the-castle-showing-r1186963, accessed 22 November 2024.