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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Troyes, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Troyes, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 108 Recto:
Troyes, Northern France 1832
D24379
Turner Bequest CCLVII 108
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘108’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 108’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the top half of this page with a view of the medieval town of Troyes, situated about one hundred miles south-east of Paris. The roofline of Saint-Jean-au-Marché can be seen at the centre of the sketch between a clump of trees and large defensive structure. For the watercolour of this town which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24691 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 126). This led to an engraving in the 1835 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate T04726. A list of pages in the present volume featuring Troyes is provided in the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Troyes, Northern France 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-troyes-northern-france-r1175407, accessed 19 April 2024.