'Tours from above the Place de la Tranchée at the Northern End of the Pont de Tours (Now the Place Choiseuil)', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Tours from above the Place de la Tranchée at the Northern End of the Pont de Tours (Now the Place Choiseuil)

Date c.1826-8

MediumWatercolour, gouache and pen and watercolour on paper

Dimensionssupport: 130 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D24712

Turner Bequest CCLIX 147

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Exhibition catalogue text

Catalogue entry from Turner on the Loire

84 Tours from above the Place de la Tranch?e a the northern end of the Pont de Tours (now the Place Choiseuil) c.1826-8 (fig.114)
Watercolour and gouache, with pen, on blue paper (type D) 130 x 185 (5 1/8 x 7 1/4)
Verso (D40129): Gouache study, probably showing a distant ch?teau on headland (compare with cat.65)
Preliminary sketches: TB CCXLIX f.9
EXH: National Gallery 1881, Group XVII - Various (Latest), no.385, without a title (Ruskin, Works, XIII, p.384); Exhibited Drawings, no.385, as 'Town in France: Bridge and Barracks?' (Ruskin, Works, XIII, p.626)
LIT: Finberg 1909, II, p.797, as 'Town in France: Bridge and barracks'; Alfrey 1977, p.73 n… (read more)