Joseph Mallord William Turner

Church of Saint-Martin, Harfleur

?1829

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Tancarville and Lillebonne Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 156 × 107 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D23702
Turner Bequest CCLIII 2 a

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The page contains a sketch of what Finberg identified as a ‘Gothic church at Harfleur’1 and the location of Harfleur has been confirmed.2 (For further information on Harfleur, see under folio 1 recto, D23699.) However, Turner records architectural and decorative elements, for example gables and tracery, in some detail, which render the building identifiable further as the Church of Saint-Martin, constructed between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries.3 Turner depicts the church’s south side.

Caroline South
May 2017

Finberg 1909, II, p.768.

?Ian Warrell, ‘Turner on the Seine: Topographical Index’, c.1999, Prints and Drawings Room, Tate Britain (printout in copy of Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999), p.3.

‘L’église Saint-Martin’, www.harfleur.fr, accessed 9 February 2017, http://www.harfleur.fr/spip.php?article18.

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