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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Street Scene with the Church of Notre-Dame, Lillebonne ?1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Street Scene with the Church of Notre-Dame, Lillebonne’ ?1829
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Street Scene with the Church of Notre-Dame, Lillebonne ?1829
D23757
Turner Bequest CCLIII 30a
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 156 x 107 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains a sketch, drawn with the page turned upside down, of a street scene with a church on the right. Finberg suggested an identification of ‘Street, with church (Probably Lillebonne.)’,1and the location has been confirmed.2 The shape of the church tower corresponds to that of Notre-Dame, and the shapes to the left of the church tower appear to be the rounded and ruined towers of Lillebonne castle. (For information on the castle, see under folio 29 recto, D23754; and for the church, under folio 28 recto; D23752.)
1
Finberg 1909, II, p.769.
2
?Ian Warrell, ‘Turner on the Seine: Topographical Index’, c.1999, Prints and Drawings Room, Tate Britain (printout in copy of Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999), p.3.
Technical notes:
There is brownish discolouration on this page, from damage likely caused by the 1928 Tate Gallery flood (see the technical notes to the sketchbook’s Introduction), the edge of the staining apparent towards the top of the page.

Caroline South
May 2017

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘Street Scene with the Church of Notre-Dame, Lillebonne ?1829 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-street-scene-with-the-church-of-notre-dame-lillebonne-r1195663, accessed 20 September 2024.