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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Bruges: The Church of Notre Dame 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bruges: The Church of Notre Dame’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Verso:
Bruges: The Church of Notre Dame 1833
D29606
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 6a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]’ bottom centre
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘84’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This street view of Bruges, drawn with the sketchbook turned upside down, shows the Church of Our Lady in the centre of the city. See Tate D12707–D12708; Turner Bequest CLX 3a–4.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Bruges: The Church of Notre Dame 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-bruges-the-church-of-notre-dame-r1202904, accessed 22 July 2024.