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 Interior of the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Interior of the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 59 Verso:
Interior of the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu 1845
D35592
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 59a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 86 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘5’ towards top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned vertically, this rapid sketch of a spacious, shadowy Gothic interior has been identified by Ian Warrell as showing the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu1 (see under folio 21 verso; D35525). Compare watercolour views in the Eu and Tréport sketchbook (Tate D35442, D35445; Turner Bequest CCCLIX 7, 10), used on the same tour. The slighter drawings on folios 63 verso, 64 recto and 68 verso (D35600, D35601, D35608) may show other aspects, or possibly the Church of Saint-Wulfran, Abbeville (see under folio 48 recto; D35571).
1
See Warrell 2014, p.228.
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, ‘Interior of the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu 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-interior-of-the-collegiate-church-of-notre-dame-and-saint-r1184011, accessed 26 April 2024.