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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Val d'Aosta Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dijon: Cathedral of St Benigne, and the Spire of the Church of St Philibert, from a Corner of the City Walls to the North 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dijon: Cathedral of St Benigne, and the Spire of the Church of St Philibert, from a Corner of the City Walls to the North’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
Dijon: Cathedral of St Benigne, and the Spire of the Church of St Philibert, from a Corner of the City Walls to the North 1836
D29054
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘12’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 12’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Views at Dijon follow on the verso and the following page of the sketchbook (D29055; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 12a; D29056; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 13). Here Turner surveys the Cathedral of St Benigne from the north, with the spire of St Philibert to the left, and in the foreground a round tower and ditch at a corner of the city walls.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Dijon: Cathedral of St Benigne, and the Spire of the Church of St Philibert, from a Corner of the City Walls to the North 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-dijon-cathedral-of-st-benigne-and-the-spire-of-the-church-of-r1144603, accessed 23 April 2024.