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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Dole from the East and a Thumbnail Sketch of a Church Spire 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 58 Recto:
Two Sketches of Dole from the East and a Thumbnail Sketch of a Church Spire 1836
D29144
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 58
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed (illegibly) by Turner in pencil
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘58’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 58’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three sketches:
i. (top) Dole; the Church of Notre Dame and the Pont sur le Doubs (in the distance, left) from the Parc St Maurice to the east, with statues on the terrace in the foreground.
ii. (inverted in relation to the main sketch) Dole from the east, from below the Parc St Maurice, looking over the bridge to Notre Dame
iii. (right, drawn with the page held upright) A quick thumbnail sketch of a church spire and tower (not Dole), inscribed illegibly below

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches of Dole from the East and a Thumbnail Sketch of a Church Spire 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-of-dole-from-the-east-and-a-thumbnail-sketch-of-r1144692, accessed 28 March 2024.