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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The West Front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The West Front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
The West Front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon 1836
D29049
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 9a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the west front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Laon, with a detail of church spire and street above right, possibly the continuation of the main sketch to the right. The sketch is inverted in relation to the main sequence of subjects in the sketchbook.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The West Front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-west-front-of-the-cathedral-of-notre-dame-laon-r1144598, accessed 25 April 2024.