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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner House and Gothic Interior, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘House and Gothic Interior, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 106 Verso:
House and Gothic Interior, Northern France 1832
D24376
Turner Bequest CCLVII 106a
Pencil on white laid paper, 127 x 175 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, the drawing on the top half of this page depicts interior view with Gothic vaulting. The sketch below features a depiction of a row of houses with a church tower typical of the medieval architecture of northern France. Turner travelled extensively around the satellite settlements of Paris in the Île-de-France with this sketchbook and also up the River Marne to the east of the city, so this scene was probably captured in one of those regions.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘House and Gothic Interior, Northern France 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-house-and-gothic-interior-northern-france-r1175404, accessed 19 April 2024.