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 > Nantes, Angers and Saumur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Castle Walls, Nantes 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castle Walls, Nantes’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Castle Walls, Nantes 1826
D23157
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 4
Pencil on white laid paper, 110 x 170 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVIII 4’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner worked studies of the architecture of Nantes onto this page. The structure in the upper right-hand quadrant of the page has been identifed as the walled medieval castle, north of the River Loire.1 The castle recurs on several pages in this volume. For a list of these, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
April 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p. 233.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Castle Walls, Nantes 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-castle-walls-nantes-r1184989, accessed 29 April 2024.