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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches: The Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon; Group of Figures 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches: The Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon; Group of Figures’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
Two Sketches: The Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon; Group of Figures 1836
D29047
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 8a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Glacier’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains two sketches:

i. (main sketch) The Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon, from the north-west, a similar subject to that on the opposite page (D29048; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 9), but from a closer viewpoint; the first of a sequence of sketches at Laon running to D29050; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 10.
ii. (top left, with the page upright) A thumbnail sketch of a group of figures.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches: The Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon; Group of Figures 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-the-cathedral-of-notre-dame-laon-group-of-r1144596, accessed 23 April 2024.