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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A View of Poissy, with the Collégiale Notre-Dame ?1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A View of Poissy, with the Collégiale Notre-Dame’ ?1829
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 93 Verso:
A View of Poissy, with the Collégiale Notre-Dame ?1829
D23883
Turner Bequest CCLIII 93a
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 simple sketch, drawn horizontally, looking over the town of Poissy, with the two-towered collegiate church, Collégiale Notre-Dame de Poissy, on the right, and hills in the background; the elements below appear to be continued from the right-hand side of the main view. Finberg it simply as a ‘Town, with church’,1 but the location has since been confirmed.2 (For information on the town, see under folio 86 recto, D23868, and for the church, under folio 91 verso; D23879.) As with the view on the recto (D23882), the walls and towers depicted in the foreground would correspond to the town’s former fortifications.3

Caroline South
May 2017

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.771.
2
Warrell 1999, pp.210, 262 note 178; ?Ian Warrell, ‘Turner on the Seine: Topographical Index’, c.1999, Prints and Drawings Room, Tate Britain (printout in copy of Warrell 1999), p.4.
3
‘Histoire’, www.ville-poissy.fr, accessed 9 May 2017, http://www.ville-poissy.fr/index.php/cadre-de-vie/decouvrir-poissy/histoire.html.

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘A View of Poissy, with the Collégiale Notre-Dame ?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-a-view-of-poissy-with-the-collegiale-notre-dame-r1195789, accessed 10 May 2024.