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St Mary's Church, Nottingham (formerly entitled 'Pershore Abbey')

Maker

(artist)
1775-1851

Title

Date of Production

1794

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.3 cm
Width: 27.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1174

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

This drawing is a typical product of Turner's 1794 Midlands tour. Buildings of different periods and styles appear to merge into one. From the elegant town house and modest inn near the foreground to the medieval church and tower above and beyond, the group is bound together by a decorative play of gables, pinnacles and castellations. A faint indication of a covered cart, in an otherwise empty street, is the only sign of human activity.

Provenance

friend of the artist, Charles Stokes (1784-1853); Thomas Hughes; by descent to his niece, Mrs F. Hughes, Reigate, Surrey; her sale, Sotheby's (London), 28 November 1922, lot 132 (as 'Unidentified Church'); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£18.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/2008-25/01/2009

Paths to Fame - Turner's Watercolour Landscapes, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, England, 16/07/2008-12/10/2008

Literature

Paths to Fame: Turner Watercolours from The Courtauld Gallery, Wordsworth Trust; Courtauld Gallery, 2008-2009
no. 5
Fig. p. 51

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 52

Inscriptions

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

Inscription: J WHATMAN

Inscription: THE OLD / ANGEL. //

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