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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Church, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Church, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 123 Recto:
?Church, Northern France 1832
D24409
Turner Bequest CCLVII 123
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘123’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 123’ top right, ascending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of the left-hand side of this page with a drawing of large building, possibly ecclesiastical in nature. The sketch is too cursory in handling to identify a definitive location for this scene although this volume contains drawings of multiple large structures in Paris, the Île-de-France, and along the Marne River to the east of the city. Lists of these are included in the sketchbook Introduction for comparison.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Church, 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-church-northern-france-r1175437, accessed 26 April 2024.