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 205 Recto:
Saint-Vulfran Church, Abbeville 1824
D19946
Turner Bequest CCXVI 198
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘198’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–198’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch, and the drawing on the folio opposite (Tate D19945; Turner Bequest CCXVI 197a), 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.
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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-r1174742, accessed 12 May 2024.