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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rotterdam, Laurensstraat, with Church of St Lawrence 1835

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rotterdam, Laurensstraat, with Church of St Lawrence’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Verso:
Rotterdam, Laurensstraat, with Church of St Lawrence 1835
D32483
Turner Bequest CCCXXI 20 a
Pencil on off-white laid paper, 153 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From a vantage point on the Laurensstraat, here Turner has produced a study of St Lawrence’s Church in the centre of Rotterdam. Built between 1449 and 1525, it is the one of the only medieval buildings to have survived extensive bombing during World War Two. The drawing is continued on the folio opposite (Tate D32484; Turner Bequest CCCXXI 21).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2016

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Rotterdam, Laurensstraat, with Church of St Lawrence 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-rotterdam-laurensstraat-with-church-of-st-lawrence-r1187297, accessed 09 July 2025.