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; Ruins at Richborough 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu, with the Château d'Eu Beyond; Ruins at Richborough’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 103 Recto:
The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu, with the Château d’Eu Beyond; Ruins at Richborough 1845
D35673
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 103
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Richboro’ bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘103’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 103’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top left is part of a hurried view of Eu, looking north-west past the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent along Place Isabelle d’Orléans to the roofline of the Château d’Eu; most of the drawing is on folio 102 verso opposite (D35672), with just the outline of the east end of the church here. For other views, see under folio 21 verso (D35525).
Below is a study of the skyline of Roman ruins at Richborough Castle, near Sandwich in Kent; see under folio 95 recto (D35658) for others views.
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; Ruins at Richborough 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-r1184088, accessed 21 September 2024.