after Joseph Mallord William Turner

Die Cathedrale in Rouen

?mid 1830s or later

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In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

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Artist
After Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Medium
Line engraving on paper
Dimensions
Unconfirmed: 100 × 140 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by Ian Warrell 1999
Reference
T07525

Technique and condition

The work is made from a single trunk of oak about 400 years old, which was brought to the artist's attention by the gardener at a girls' private school at Ascot. Nash roughed out the pieces in Ascot then transported them to his studio in Blaenau Ffestiniog, North Wales where he charred them with a propane torch to the depth of about 1cm. He treats them with linseed oil, chars them again and linseeds them a second time.

Annette King & Rachel Barker
June 1995

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