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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Street Scene at Eu with the Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Street Scene at Eu with the Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 210 Recto:
Street Scene at Eu with the Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent 1824
D19956
Turner Bequest CCXVI 203
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘203’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–203’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner scholar Ian Warrell has identified this highly detailed study of a street scene and Gothic church as showing Eu, a town in the Haute Normandie region of northern France.1 The church is named after Notre-Dame (Our Lady) and Lawrence O’Toole, the Irish saint who was the Archbishop of Dublin during the Norman invasion of Ireland and who himself died at Eu. Construction began in the twelfth century and the church was completed in 1240.2 See also Tate D19954, D19955, D19961; Turner Bequest CCXVI 202, 202a, 206.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

1
Warrell 1995, p.39 no.5.
2
Ibid.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Street Scene at Eu with the Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-street-scene-at-eu-with-the-church-of-notre-dame-and-saint-r1174751, accessed 25 April 2024.