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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Normandy ?1829 > Tancarville and Lillebonne Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Houses and Church beside the River Seine at Villequier ?1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Houses and Church beside the River Seine at Villequier’ ?1829
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 57 Verso:
Houses and Church beside the River Seine at Villequier ?1829
D23811
Turner Bequest CCLIII 57a
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 sketch, drawn horizontally, of a church and other buildings. Finberg noted it as ‘Houses and church beside river’,1 and the location has been specified as Villequier,2 a town on the River Seine. The combination of pointed steeple and dome at the top of the church tower render it identifiable as that of the Church of Saint-Martin, which dates from the sixteenth century.3
1
Finberg 1909, II, p.770.
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.6.
3
‘L’église Saint Martin’, www.villequier.fr, accessed 31 March 2017, http://www.villequier.fr/tourisme-et-culture/patrimoine-culturel/leglise-saint-martin/.
Technical notes:
There is brownish discolouration on this page, the edge of the staining apparent on the right, from damage likely caused by the 1928 Tate Gallery flood (see the technical notes to the sketchbook’s Introduction). There is a small hole in the paper towards the centre of the page.

Caroline South
May 2017

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘Houses and Church beside the River Seine at Villequier ?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-houses-and-church-beside-the-river-seine-at-villequier-r1195717, accessed 19 September 2024.