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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Saint-Vulfran Church, Abbeville 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Saint-Vulfran Church, Abbeville’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 204 Verso:
Saint-Vulfran Church, Abbeville 1824
D19945
Turner Bequest CCXVI 197 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, and the drawing on the folio opposite (Tate D19946; Turner Bequest CCXVI 198), are most likely studies of one of the portals of Saint-Vulfran Church at Abbeville. The elaborate Gothic mouldings and ornament are recorded in detail by Turner. For other views of Abbeville see Tate D18582, D19929–D19933, D19937, D19943–D19944, D19948, D20116–D20117; Turner Bequest CCXI 37a, CCXVI 189a–191a, 193a, 196a–197, 199, CCXVII 22–23.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘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-saint-vulfran-church-abbeville-r1174741, accessed 25 April 2024.