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, Tours 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church of Saint-Julien, Tours’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Church of Saint-Julien, Tours 1826
D23333
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 45
Pencil on white laid paper, 103 x 153 mm
Partial watermark of bunch of grapes
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘S[...]s’ towards bottom right
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘45’ bottom right, descending vertically, and in blue ink ‘266’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIX 45’ 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 an interior study of the gothic Church of Saint-Julien in Tours.1 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.

John Chu
May 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.236.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Church of Saint-Julien, 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-tours-r1185111, accessed 20 September 2024.