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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Peronne; Market Square, Belfry and Church 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Peronne; Market Square, Belfry and Church’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 70 Recto:
Peronne; Market Square, Belfry and Church 1836
D29168
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 70
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘70’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 70’ top left, inverted
 
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 sketch was made at Peronne, recording the market square with the belfry and tower of the Church of St Jean le Baptiste. Turner sketched the same site near the other end of the sketchbook (D29045; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 7a).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Peronne; Market Square, Belfry and Church 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-peronne-market-square-belfry-and-church-r1144716, accessed 25 April 2024.