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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape with a Church, ?near Lyon 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape with a Church, ?near Lyon’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 55 Recto:
Landscape with a Church, ?near Lyon 1819
D14076
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 55
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 55’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts a view of a church and with a bridge in the distance to the left. The location is currently unidentified although it may represent somewhere near Lyon.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Landscape with a Church, ?near Lyon 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-landscape-with-a-church-near-lyon-r1142935, accessed 25 April 2024.