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 La Possonière; Savennières, Loire Valley 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘La Possonière; Savennières, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
La Possonière; Savennières, Loire Valley
D23195
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 23a
Pencil on white laid paper, 170 x 110 mm
Partial unidentified watermark
Inscribed by Turner ‘S E of P’ top right, ‘Possoniere’, ‘Savunnier’, ‘Red’ centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘25’ bottom left inverted and ‘355’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with sketches of the riverside terrain of the Loire Valley. Notes between the second and third drawings from the top of the page record that some of these vistas were caught around the neighbouring villages of La Possonière and Savennières. The windmills in the three sketches as the bottom of the page, which are inverted in relation to the drawings above, have been identified with La Pierre Bécherelle at Épiré, located some two miles upstream of Savennières.1

John Chu
April 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p. 234.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘La Possonière; Savennières, Loire Valley 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-la-possoniere-savennieres-loire-valley-r1185027, accessed 21 September 2024.