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 206 Recto:
Saint-Vulfran Church, Abbeville 1824
D19948
Turner Bequest CCXVI 199
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?Ligrais]’ | ‘Vulran’ centre (inverted)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘199’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–199’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight sketch, rendered with the book turned upside down, depicts the fifteenth-century Saint-Vulfran Church at Abbeville. Turner draws the church from its western façade, showing part of the exterior flying buttresses at left. The artist has inscribed the words ‘[?Ligrais]’ and ‘Vulran’ below the drawing. See also Tate D19945–D19946; Turner Bequest CCXVI 197a–198.

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-r1174743, accessed 26 April 2024.