After Joseph Mallord William Turner, Die Cathedrale in Rouen ?mid 1830s or later
Technique and condition
The work is made from a single trunk of oak about 400 years old, which was brought to the artist's attention by the gardener at a girls' private school at Ascot. Nash roughed out the pieces in Ascot then transported them to his studio in Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales where he charred them with a propane torch to the depth of about 1cm. He treats them with linseed oil, chars them again and linseeds them a second time.
Annette King & Rachel Barker
June 1995
Other works of art you may be interested in
Find similar artworks
Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner
(41,861)
Category
On paper, print
(15,818)
Decade
1830-9
(11,270)
Subject
architecture
(30,433)
periods and styles
(3,305)
Gothic
(987)
public and municipal
(1,027)
market
(133)
townscapes, man-made features
(18,965)
square
(398)
places
(23,426)
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
(9,203)
countries and continents
(12,032)
France
(2,429)