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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The West Front of the Cathedral at Reims 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The West Front of the Cathedral at Reims’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Verso:
The West Front of the Cathedral at Reims 1836
D29163
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 67a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by illegibly by Turner in pencil
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook, this is a view of the west front of Reims cathedral, with details of architecture and figures, and various indecipherable notes.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The West Front of the Cathedral at Reims 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-at-reims-r1144711, accessed 26 April 2024.