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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Recto:
Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris 1832
D24293
Turner Bequest CCLVII 65
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘2 12 6’ towards top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘65’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 65’ top right, ascending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a view of the quayside buildings of Paris. The western towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral can be glimpsed in the top left-hand corner. Turner made several sketches of the Parisian riverside in the present volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook Introduction. For the watercolours of the city’s quaysides which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24683–D24685 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 118–20). These culminated in several engravings in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impressions T05621–T05623.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, 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-cathedral-of-notre-dame-paris-r1175321, accessed 19 April 2024.