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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu, from the South-East; Channel Cliffs 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu, from the South-East; Channel Cliffs’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 54 Verso:
The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu, from the South-East; Channel Cliffs 1845
D35582
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 54a
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 86 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Chalk’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, the main subject, as Ian Warrell recognised,1 is the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and St-Laurent, Eu, seen from the south-east; for other views see under folio 21 verso (D35525).
Above is an unrelated view of an unidentified bay, presumably on a Channel coast, with the cliffs annotated as ‘Chalk’. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many coastal views scattered through it.
1
See Warrell 1995, p.40.
Technical notes:
There is some brown staining at the gutter, possibly indicating water damage in the 1928 Tate flood.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame and Saint-Laurent, Eu, from the South-East; Channel Cliffs 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-collegiate-church-of-notre-dame-and-saint-laurent-eu-r1184001, accessed 29 November 2024.