'Tours from the Northern End of the Pont de Tours, with the Cathedral and Tour de Guise beyond', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Tours from the Northern End of the Pont de Tours, with the Cathedral and Tour de Guise beyond

Date 1826

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 130 x 174 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D34684

Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 246

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Exhibition catalogue text

Catalogue entry from Turner on the Loire

27 Tours from the northern end of the Pont de Tours, with the cathedral and Tour de Guise beyond 1826 (fig.111)
Pencil (formerly attached to TB CCCXLIV 244A and 245, cat.24 above; torn unevenly) 130 x 174 (5 1/8 x 6 7/8)
LIT: Finberg 1909, II, p.1131, as 'View, with distant cathedral'
TB CCCXLIV 246; D34684

Published in:
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.216 no.27, reproduced p.116

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