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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mâcon from the River Saône to the North 1819

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
Mâcon from the River Saône to the North 1819
D14029
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 26’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner appears to have navigated part of the River Saône in Burgundy by boat and made a number of topographical drawings from the waters between Chalon-sur-Saône and Lyon. He has used this page, and the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 25 verso (D14027), to make a panoramic sketch of the city of Mâcon, approximately forty-five miles north of Lyon. Visible on this side of the composition is the early nineteenth-century Cathedral of St Vincent (not to be confused with the old Church of St Vincent near the bridge of Saint Laurent), and the dome of an eighteenth-century hospital named the Hôtel Dieu. For further studies of Mâcon see folio 27 (D14030).
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Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Mâcon from the River Saône to the North 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-macon-from-the-river-saone-to-the-north-r1142889, accessed 28 March 2024.