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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?View of Lyon 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?View of Lyon’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Verso:
?View of Lyon 1819
D14061
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 45 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is extremely slight and too rough to be conclusively identified although similarities to the composition on folio 46 (D14062) suggest that it may depict a view of Lyon.

Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘?View of Lyon 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-view-of-lyon-r1142919, accessed 25 April 2024.