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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Second Italian Tour 1828-9 > Lyons to Marseilles Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Church of St Andéol at Bourg-Saint-Andéol; the Donzère Parade 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Church of St Andéol at Bourg-Saint-Andéol; the Donzère Parade’ 1828
Folio 28 Recto:
The Church of St Andéol at Bourg-Saint-Andéol; the Donzère Parade 1828
D21044
Turner Bequest CCXXX 28
Pencil on cream lined wove paper, 145 x 111 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Rignol]’ top right
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘28’ top right, and ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXXX 28’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The lower half of the page contains two studies of the Donzère parade, which Turner executed with the sketchbook inverted. He passed these steep limestone cliffs at a late stage of his two-day boat journey from Lyon to Avignon, using hatched and dotted lines to trace their contours. Both cliff profiles extend onto folio 27 verso opposite (D21043), and further studies of this subject can be seen on folios 27 recto and 28 verso (D21042, D21045).
The unrelated sketch at the top of the page appears to depict the Romanesque church of Bourg-Saint-Andéol, located south of the Donzère parade on the right bank of the Rhône. With heavier lines suggesting the use of a blunt pencil, Turner detailed the church’s distinctive octagonal lantern tower and spire. His scrawled inscription above may be a misspelling of ‘Andéol’, or a mistaken identification of ‘Bagnols-sur-Cèze’, a town located further south and inland. Further views of Bourg-Saint-Andéol appear on folios 28 verso, 30 verso and 32 recto (D21045, D21049–D21050; Turner Bequest CCXXX 31).

Hannah Kaspar
March 2024

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘The Church of St Andéol at Bourg-Saint-Andéol; the Donzère Parade 1828’, catalogue entry, March 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/the-church-of-st-andeol-at-bourg-saint-andeol-the-donzere-parade-r1209703, accessed 16 May 2025.