J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats and Figures, Loire Valley 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats and Figures, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Boats and Figures, Loire Valley 1826
D23250
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 3
Pencil on white laid paper, 103 x 153 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mast and C[...] cov. with | Mats and Some of | Willow’ towards top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘3’ bottom right, descending vertically, ‘266’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIX 3’ 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 studies of boats and figures working around them, presumably taken in the Loire Valley. Turner subsequently used local rivercraft to enliven his views of the Loire which he worked up for printed reproduction in The Keepsake annual (1831) and Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France).1 For examples, see Tate impressions T05107 and T04689.

John Chu
May 2015

1
Luke Herrmann, Turner Prints: The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, Oxford 1990, pp. 164–6, 171–83.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Boats and Figures, Loire Valley 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-boats-and-figures-loire-valley-r1185087, accessed 24 April 2024.