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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loire, Tours, Orleans and Paris ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Roche-Corbon, Loire Valley 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Roche-Corbon, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
Roche-Corbon, Loire Valley 1826
D23275
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 15a
Pencil on white laid paper, 153 x 103 mm
Partial watermark of bunch of grapes
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘loire’ towards top centre, ‘ROCH CO[...]’ towards bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled much of this page with studies of the ruined medieval fortress at Roche-Corbon just outside Tours, identifiable by a thin, tower-like remnant known as the ‘Lanterne’.1 As outlined in the sketchbook introduction, Tours and its environs feature heavily in these pages.

John Chu
May 2015

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

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Roche-Corbon, 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-roche-corbon-loire-valley-r1185114, accessed 19 April 2024.