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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Five Views at and near Flône 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Five Views at and near Flône’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
Five Views at and near Flône 1824
D19619
Turner Bequest CCXVI 34 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Set against precipitous limestone cliffs, the abbey at Flône is shown here in five swiftly rendered views. Founded in 1075, the abbey was reconstructed in the seventeenth century into the building we see in the present drawing. From a vantage point on his boat, Turner records various aspects of the abbey including the tour d’angle (Junction Tower), the convent, and Church of Saint-Matthieu. For more drawings of Flône see Tate D19620, D19621, D19642, D20086; Turner Bequest CCXVI 35, 35a, 46a, CCXVII 2.

Alice Rylance-Watson
March 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Five Views at and near Flône 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-five-views-at-and-near-flone-r1174407, accessed 20 September 2024.