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 The Church of Saint-Wulfran, Abbeville 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Church of Saint-Wulfran, Abbeville’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Verso:
The Church of Saint-Wulfran, Abbeville 1845
D35586
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 56a
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?R...]’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, Abbeville’s Church of Saint-Wulfran is seen from the south (showing the liturgical east end with the twin north towers beyond). The viewpoint is in the vicinity of the modern fire station on Avenue du Rivage.
The subject is discussed under another view, on folio 48 recto (D35571).
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, ‘The Church of Saint-Wulfran, Abbeville 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-the-church-of-saint-wulfran-abbeville-r1184005, accessed 20 September 2024.