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 Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent and the Château d'Eu, from the North 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent and the Château d'Eu, from the North’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Verso:
The Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent and the Château d’Eu, from the North 1845
D35570
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 47a
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The main subject, as Ian Warrell recognised,1 is the Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent, Eu, seen from the north-west. On the right are the roofs of the north end of the nearby Château d’Eu; for other views see under folio 21 verso (D35525).
1
See Warrell 1995, p.40.
Technical notes:
There is some brown staining at the gutter and at the edge, possibly indicating water damage in the 1928 Tate flood.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent and the Château d’Eu, from the North 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-church-of-notre-dame-and-st-laurent-and-the-chateau-deu-r1183989, accessed 20 September 2024.