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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Folkestone Harbour; the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Folkestone Harbour; the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
?Folkestone Harbour; the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu 1845
D35514
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 15
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Partial watermark ‘ing | 42’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Basin’ bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘15’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The harbour ‘Basin’ here may be at Folkestone, as suggested by aspects of the other half of the view on folio 14 verso opposite (D35512).
That subject, in relatively soft pencil, has been drawn over using a sharper line with a less coherent double-page sketch with buildings near the gutter on the opposite page linked below by arcing lines to the jagged silhouette of a building on the right here. It seems to be a loose variation of the view on folio 21 verso (D35525) showing the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent at Eu, from the south-east; see under D35525 for related views.
Technical notes:
There is some brown staining at the gutter, possibly indicating water damage in the 1928 Tate flood.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Folkestone Harbour; the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-folkestone-harbour-the-collegiate-church-of-notre-dame-and-r1183937, accessed 13 May 2024.