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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Langres from the South-West 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Verso:
Langres from the South-West 1836
D29158
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 65
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Walk’
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 65’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This side of the page is now bound as the verso rather than the recto as described by Finberg. Drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook, the sketch depicts Langres from the south-west, in a view continued to the right on D29157; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 64a, following in this orientation. In an annotation to a copy of his Inventory (Tate Library) Finberg had subsequently suggested that the ramparts belonged to the Chateau of Chaumont (in the Loire Valley).
For the full tour of the First Loan Collection see Warrell 1991.

David Hill
June 2010

Revised by David Blayney Brown
March 2013

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Langres from the South-West 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, revised by David Blayney Brown, March 2013, 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-langres-from-the-south-west-r1144707, accessed 28 March 2024.