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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Part of Saint-Vulfran Church, Abbeville 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Part of Saint-Vulfran Church, Abbeville’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Part of Saint-Vulfran Church, Abbeville 1824
D19933
Turner Bequest CCXVI 191 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook turned upside down, here Turner has made a detailed study of part of Saint-Vulfran Collegiate Church in Abbeville, Picardy. The church was constructed in the late fifteenth century in the Flamboyant Gothic style.1 At bottom left is the top of an exterior pinnacle continued from the top of the leaf.
For other drawings of Abbeville, including Turner’s studies of Saint-Vulfran Church in this sketchbook, see Tate D18582, D19929–D19932, D19935, D19937, D19943, D19945–D19948, D20116–D20117; Turner Bequest CCXI 37a, CCXVI 189a–191, 192a, 193a, 196a, 197a–199, CCXVII 22–23 and Tate Impression T04763.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

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‘Saint-Vulfran Collegiate Church, Abbeville Tourisme’, accessed 8 October 2014, http://www.abbeville-tourisme.com/patrimoine-gb/visites-libres-gb/saint-vulfran-gb

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Part of Saint-Vulfran Church, Abbeville 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-part-of-saint-vulfran-church-abbeville-r1174729, accessed 11 May 2024.