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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches of Part of the City Walls at Dijon 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches of Part of the City Walls at Dijon’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
Two Sketches of Part of the City Walls at Dijon 1836
D29055
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 12a
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 city walls of Dijon from the south-west, with the spire of St Philibert to the left and the towers of another church, St Michelles, and a gateway to the right; figures occupy a bank in the foreground.
ii. (above) City walls, with a church façade, possibly that of the Carmelite Church at Dijon, top right.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches of Part of the City Walls at Dijon 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-of-part-of-the-city-walls-at-dijon-r1144604, accessed 22 November 2024.