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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches: Church of Notre Dame, Vitry-le-François;?Langres 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches: Church of Notre Dame, Vitry-le-François;?Langres’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Two Sketches: Church of Notre Dame, Vitry-le-François;?Langres 1836
D29053
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 11a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains two sketches:
i. (main sketch) The west front of the church of Notre Dame at Vitry-le-François from the south-south-west. The viewpoint is now obscured by later buildings. Turner drew the northern entrance to Vitry on the recto (D29052; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 11). There is an architectural detail above right.
ii. (left, drawn with the sketchbook in an upright position) A distant view of a French hilltop town with a citadel, possibly Langres.
For Vitry see Tate D29052.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches: Church of Notre Dame, Vitry-le-François;?Langres 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-sketches-church-of-notre-dame-vitry-le-francoislangres-r1144602, accessed 18 May 2024.