Joseph Mallord William Turner

The Church of Notre-Dame, Lillebonne

?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: D23784
Turner Bequest CCLIII 44

Catalogue entry

This page contains a sketch, of a church tower. Finberg noted it simply as ‘Church spire’,1 but the location has subsequently been identified as Lillebonne.2 Turner depicts the decoration of the tower in some detail, which renders the church identifiable as the sixteenth-century 3 Church of Notre-Dame.

Finberg 1909, II, p.769.

?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.

‘Parish Church of Notre-Dame, French Heritage monument to Lillebonne’, en.patrimoine-de-france.com, accessed 2 March 2017, http://en.patrimoine-de-france.com/seine-maritime/lillebonne/eglise-paroissiale-notre-dame-10.php.

Technical notes:

There is brownish discolouration owing to damage likely caused by the 1928 Tate Gallery flood (see the technical notes to the sketchbook’s Introduction) visible in the lower part of the page.

Caroline South
May 2017

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