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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?A Church near the Yonne River, France 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?A Church near the Yonne River, France’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 98 Recto:
?A Church near the Yonne River, France 1820
D16872
Turner Bequest CXCIII 97
Pencil on white wove paper, 94 x 115 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘97’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
Stamped in black ‘CXCIII 97’ top right, ascending right-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject of this faint sketch is too rough to be identified, although it appears to depict a church, possibly on the banks of the river Yonne. It is likely to relate to Turner’s return journey through France in January 1820.

Nicola Moorby
March 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?A Church near the Yonne River, France 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-church-near-the-yonne-river-france-r1138647, accessed 04 June 2025.