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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Romilly-sur-Seine, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Romilly-sur-Seine, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Recto:
?Romilly-sur-Seine, Northern France 1832
D24315
Turner Bequest CCLVII 76
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘C[...]y’ centre right, descending vertically
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘76’ towards bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 76’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the central strip of this page with a view of a small town. The handling is too cursory here to suggest a definitive location for this subject although the tower to the right of the scene appears similar to that of the Church of Notre-Dame at Romilly-sur-Seine, some seventy miles east of Paris. A second sketch of a town in a landscape is featured running down the left-hand edge of the page.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Romilly-sur-Seine, 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-romilly-sur-seine-northern-france-r1175343, accessed 27 April 2024.