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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Lillebonne Castle and the Church of Notre-Dame, Lillebonne ?1829

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
Lillebonne Castle and the Church of Notre-Dame, Lillebonne ?1829
D23763
Turner Bequest CCLIII 33a
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 107 x 156 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains a faint sketch, drawn horizontally, of a ruined castle on a hilltop overlooking a church and town below. Finberg noted it as ‘Road, with ruined castle on hill (Probably Lillebonne.)’,1 and the location has been confirmed.2 The shapes and positions of the castle ruins and church correspond to those of Lillebonne’s castle and Church of Notre-Dame. (For information on the castle see under folio 29 recto, D23754; and for the church, under folio 28 recto; D23752.)

Caroline South
May 2017

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.

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘Lillebonne Castle and 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-lillebonne-castle-and-the-church-of-notre-dame-lillebonne-r1195669, accessed 28 March 2024.