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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent and the Château d'Eu, from the North-West 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Recto:
The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent and the Château d’Eu, from the North-West 1845
D35587
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 57
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘57’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 57’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent and the Château d’Eu are seen across parkland to the south-east; for other views see under folio 21 verso (D35525).
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 Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent and the Château d’Eu, from the North-West 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-collegiate-church-of-notre-dame-and-st-laurent-and-the-r1184006, accessed 29 March 2024.