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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Château d'Eu with the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent in the Distance 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Château d'Eu with the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent in the Distance’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Verso:
The Château d’Eu with the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent in the Distance 1845
D35565
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 45
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?Timber]’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The north end of the Louis-Philippe’s chateau is seen from the Allée du Bastion, with the spire of the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent on the left to the south-east; see under folio 21 verso (D35540) for other views.
The blank recto in inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘45’ and stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 45’ at the bottom right. For numerous instances of blank, unaccessioned rectos in this sketchbook, see the technical notes in the Introduction.
Technical notes:
There is some brown staining at the gutter, possibly indicating water damage in the 1928 Tate flood.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Château d’Eu with the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent in the Distance 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-chateau-deu-with-the-collegiate-church-of-notre-dame-and-r1183985, accessed 25 April 2024.