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 Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu, with the Château d'Eu Beyond; Channel Cliffs 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu, with the Château d'Eu Beyond; Channel Cliffs’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 102 Verso:
The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu, with the Château d’Eu Beyond; Channel Cliffs 1845
D35672
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 102a
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top is a hurried view of Eu, looking north-west past the east end of the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent along Place Isabelle d’Orléans to the roofline of the Château d’Eu. The church is continued a little way onto folio 103 recto opposite (D35673). For other views, see under folio 21 verso (D35525).
Inverted at the bottom is an unrelated drawing of cliffs, presumably on a Channel coast. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it. Finberg’s title, ‘Cliffs – “Richboro’.”’,1 stems from his coupling this page with D35673 opposite, where Turner’s inscription appears, although the present view seems unrelated.
1
Finberg 1909, II, p.1174.
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 Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu, with the Château d’Eu Beyond; Channel Cliffs 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-collegiate-church-of-notre-dame-and-saint-laurent-eu-r1184087, accessed 23 September 2024.