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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches: Ramparts at St Omer; Bridge and Church at St Gervais 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches: Ramparts at St Omer; Bridge and Church at St Gervais’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
Two Sketches: Ramparts at St Omer; Bridge and Church at St Gervais 1836
D29033
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 1a
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) On the ramparts at St Omer, the continuation to the left of the sketch on the facing page (D29034; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 2).
ii. (to left, drawn down the page) The bridge and church at St Gervais, looking north to the Aiguille de Varan above the Arve Valley.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches: Ramparts at St Omer; Bridge and Church at St Gervais 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-ramparts-at-st-omer-bridge-and-church-at-st-r1144582, accessed 21 November 2024.