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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Eu and Treport Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Eu from the North 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Eu from the North’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Eu from the North 1845
D35450
Turner Bequest CCCLIX 15
Pencil, watercolour, and pen and ink on white wove paper, 232 x 323 mm
Inscribed in pen and blue ink ‘1472’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLIX – 15’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ian Warrell has indentified this as one of a series of three views taken from the high hill to the north of Eu;1 see also D35439 and D35441 (CCCLIX 4, 6). Alternate dark and light watercolour washes describe the broad forms of the Bresle valley with the town at its centre. Fine red ink lines have been worked across the landscape, indicating architectural detail and defining the lay of the land. Particularly prominent amongst the visible landmarks is the dark-blue bulk of the medieval collégiale, or ‘collegiate church’ of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent towards the centre of the sheet.2 To the immediate right of this is the long frontage of the Château d’Eu, the summer palace of King Louis-Philippe, whose possible connection with the trip is laid out in the tour Introduction
1
Warrell 1995, p.39.
2
For a contemporary description of the collegiate church, see John Murray (ed.), Hand-Book for Travellers in France, revised ed., London, Paris and Leipzig 1844, pp.66–7.
Verso:
Blank; except for patches of brown and red watercolour.

John Chu
February 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Eu from the North 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-eu-from-the-north-r1173546, accessed 31 October 2025.