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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Rouen from the Side of St Catherine's Hill 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Rouen from the Side of St Catherine's Hill’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Verso:
View of Rouen from the Side of St Catherine’s Hill 1821
D24509
Turner Bequest CCLVIII 5a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 123 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made from the slopes of St Catherine’s Hill, this view of Rouen includes the spires of St Maclou (the tall Gothic spire at the left), with the spires of the cathedral before it, and St Ouen at the far right of the page. Turner has noted ‘Cuyp yellow’, referring to the golden light that illuminates many of the landscapes and marine paintings of the Dutch artist Aelbert Cuyp (1620–1691). He often inscribed the artist’s name as a colour note in this way in his sketches.1
For a list of Turner’s sketches of Rouen in this book, see folio 1 (Tate D24500; Turner Bequest CCLVIII 1).

Thomas Ardill
February 2013

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A. [‘Fred’] H.G. Bachrach, ‘Aelbert Cuyp’, Evelyn Joll, Martin Butlin and Luke Herrmann (eds.), The Oxford Companion to J.M.W. Turner, Oxford 2001, pp.69–70; Warrell 1999, pp.174, 261 note 104.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘View of Rouen from the Side of St Catherine’s Hill 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-of-rouen-from-the-side-of-st-catherines-hill-r1146296, accessed 21 November 2024.