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 Notes by Turner 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Notes by Turner’ 1826 (Back cover of sketchbook)
Back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Back Cover:
Notes by Turner 1826
D40690
Turner Bequest
Pencil on white laid paper, 170 x 110 mm
Inscribed in black ink by Turner ‘Nantes | Angers | Saumer’ towards bottom right, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVIII’ bottom left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, Turner inscribed this marbled paper cover with three of the principal Loire Valley sites recorded in this volume: Nantes, Angers, and Saumur.

John Chu
April 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Notes by Turner 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-notes-by-turner-r1185079, accessed 26 April 2024.