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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Val d'Aosta Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Gateway at Langres 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Gateway at Langres’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
Gateway at Langres 1836
D29154
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 63
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner ‘Langr’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘63’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 63’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch is drawn inverted in relation to the main sequence of subjects in the sketchbook. For others of the Rathaus Gate (and Roman walls) at Langres see the verso and the following page (D29155 and D29156; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 63a, 64).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Gateway at Langres 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-gateway-at-langres-r1144702, accessed 24 April 2024.