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 Angers; La Pointe, Loire Valley 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Angers; La Pointe, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
Angers; La Pointe, Loire Valley
D23197
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 24a
Pencil on white laid paper, 170 x 110 mm
Partial unidentified watermark
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Point’ towards top left, ‘M[...]’, ‘Anger’ centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘24’ 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 terrain and buildings around the confluence of the River Loire and the River Maine. A note above the second sketch from the top of the page identifies the scene as the riverside village of La Pointe. The bottom two sketches have been identified as distant views of the city of Angers on the River Maine.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, ‘Angers; La Pointe, 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-angers-la-pointe-loire-valley-r1185029, accessed 23 September 2024.