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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Street with a Church Tower, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Street with a Church Tower, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Verso:
Street with a Church Tower, Northern France 1832
D24344
Turner Bequest CCLVII 90a
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a view of town buildings clustered round an open space. The lower stories of a Gothic church tower typical of the medieval architecture of northern France is included on the left-hand side of the scene. Turner travelled extensively around the satellite settlements of Paris with this sketchbook and also up the River Marne to the east of the city, so this scene was probably captured in one of the towns in those regions.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Street with a Church Tower, Northern France 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, 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-with-a-church-tower-northern-france-r1175372, accessed 25 April 2024.