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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Romanesque Church near Lyons 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Romanesque Church near Lyons’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
A Romanesque Church near Lyons 1802
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Turner Bequest LXXIII 30
Pencil on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘nr Lyons’ bottom right
Numbered by a later hand in pencil ‘30’ and stamped in black ‘LXXIII 30’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner approached Lyon along the Saône valley from Mâcon – a distance of some forty-two miles taking him through Belleville, Villefranche and Trévoux. David Hill has speculated that he arrived at Lyon on the last day of July, having been travelling several days from Paris.1 This church has not been identified.
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David Hill, Turner in the Alps: The Journey through France and Switzerland in 1802, London 1992, p.28.
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David Blayney Brown
June 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Romanesque Church near Lyons 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-romanesque-church-near-lyons-r1133050, accessed 27 September 2024.