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 > Loire, Tours, Orleans and Paris ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Church of Saint-Julien with a Stagecoach, Tours 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church of Saint-Julien with a Stagecoach, Tours’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Church of Saint-Julien with a Stagecoach, Tours 1826
D23270
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 13
Pencil on white laid paper, 103 x 153 mm
Partial watermark of bunch of grapes
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘13’ bottom left, descending vertically, ‘266’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIX 13’ bottom left descending
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the upper half of this page with an interior study of the gothic Church of Saint-Julien in Tours. This is one of a number of pages featuring the architecture of this building in this volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook introduction. A drawing of a ‘diligence’, or stagecoach, is included at the centre of the page.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Church of Saint-Julien with a Stagecoach, Tours 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-church-of-saint-julien-with-a-stagecoach-tours-r1185107, accessed 16 May 2024.