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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Cathedral, Porte Chaussée and St Nicholas's Church, Verdun 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Cathedral, Porte Chaussée and St Nicholas's Church, Verdun’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 71 Verso:
The Cathedral, Porte Chaussée and St Nicholas’s Church, Verdun 1824
D19691
Turner Bequest CCXVI 71 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘[smith &] allnut | [18]22’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In this swiftly rendered sketch Turner pictures the fortified city of Verdun in north-eastern France. From left to right can be seen the tenth-century Romanesque Cathedral of Notre-Dame, the crenellated half-moon towers of the Porte Chaussée gateway, and finally the eighteenth-century Jesuit Chapel of Saint-Nicholas.1 For further sketches of Verdun, see Tate D19694–D19698; Turner Bequest CCXVI 73–75.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2014

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‘Patrimoine’, Verdun, accessed 18 April 2014, http://www.verdun.fr/Terre-d-Histoire/Verdun-aujourd-hui/Patrimoine

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Cathedral, Porte Chaussée and St Nicholas’s Church, Verdun 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-cathedral-porte-chaussee-and-st-nicholass-church-verdun-r1174480, accessed 05 April 2026.