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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Five Sketches: Cathedral, Churches and other Buildings at Dijon 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Five Sketches: Cathedral, Churches and other Buildings at Dijon’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Five Sketches: Cathedral, Churches and other Buildings at Dijon 1836
D29056
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?] Eyot’ top left
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘13’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 13’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains five sketches:
i. (top left) The Cathedral of St Benigne (centre) and the spire of St Philibert (right), Dijon, from the south, with a bridge over the River Ouche in the foreground, inscribed ‘[?] Eyot’ above.
ii. (top right) The façade of Notre Dame, Dijon.
iii. (lower left) The Musée des Beaux Arts (left), theatre (centre) and façade of St Michel, Dijon.
iv. (lower right) The façade of a church, too hastily sketched to be certainly identified but perhaps Notre Dame or St Michel if drawn with greater licence.
v. (below left, squeezed in along lower edge of page) A very slight and almost indecipherable view of a distant town, with a bridge to the right, again possibly Dijon.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Five Sketches: Cathedral, Churches and other Buildings at Dijon 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-five-sketches-cathedral-churches-and-other-buildings-at-r1144605, accessed 26 April 2024.