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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Morlaise to Nantes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Nantes, Brittany 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Nantes, Brittany’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Verso:
?Nantes, Brittany 1826
D23096
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 52a
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with loose sketches of the skyline of a town. Tate curator Ian Warrell has suggested that the drawings may have been taken at Nantes.1 The pages of this volume feature many depictions of this Brittany city, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction for comparison.

John Chu
September 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.232.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Nantes, Brittany 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-nantes-brittany-r1184924, accessed 25 April 2024.