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 Parnay, Loire Valley 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Parnay, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Verso:
Parnay, Loire Valley 1826
D23243
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 47a
Pencil on white laid paper, 110 x 170 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘C Parn’ top left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘2’ bottom right, descending vertically, ‘355’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with drawings of the settlement at Parnay in the Loire Valley. Both sketches have been identified as westerly vistas looking downstream towards the city of Saumur.1 Several pages in this volume feature the buildings of Parnay; a list of these drawings is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
April 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p. 235.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Parnay, Loire Valley 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-parnay-loire-valley-r1185075, accessed 16 April 2024.