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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches at St Omer: Ramparts; Abbey of St Bertin 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches at St Omer: Ramparts; Abbey of St Bertin’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
Two Sketches at St Omer: Ramparts; Abbey of St Bertin 1836
D29035
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 2a
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, to right) A couple of trees, the continuation to the left of the drawing of the Abbey of St Bertin at St Omer on the opposite page (D29036; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 3).
ii. (to the left) A spired church among trees, the continuation to the right of the sketch on the ramparts at St Omer on the recto (D29034; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 2).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Two Sketches at St Omer: Ramparts; Abbey of St Bertin 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-at-st-omer-ramparts-abbey-of-st-bertin-r1144584, accessed 21 November 2024.