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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches:Distant View of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon; Alpine Peak 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches:Distant View of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon; Alpine Peak’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
Two Sketches:Distant View of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon; Alpine Peak 1836
D29050
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 10
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed illegibly by Turner in pencil bottom right, inverted.
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘10’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:
i. (main sketch) A distant view of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon, from the west.
ii. (bottom right, inverted) A thumbnail sketch of an Alpine peak, inscribed illegibly to the right of the sketch.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches:Distant View of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Laon; Alpine Peak 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketchesdistant-view-of-the-cathedral-of-notre-dame-laon-r1144599, accessed 18 May 2024.