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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Gothic Architecture, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gothic Architecture, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 117 Verso:
Gothic Architecture, Northern France 1832
D24398
Turner Bequest CCLVII 117a
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 much of this page with a large, ornamented Gothic building. The sketch is too cursory in handling to suggest a definitive location for this scene although this volume contains drawings of multiple comparable structures in Paris, the Île-de-France, and along the Marne River to the east of the city. Lists of these are included in the sketchbook Introduction for comparison.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Gothic Architecture, 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-gothic-architecture-northern-france-r1175426, accessed 23 September 2024.