Joseph Mallord William Turner

Angers, Loire Valley

1826

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Loose Studies of Northern France
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 126 × 184 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D25038
Turner Bequest CCLXI 66

Catalogue entry

This sketch depicts the city of Angers as viewed from right bank of the River Maine, close to the Haute Chaine, part of the town’s medieval defences. It is one of several pencil sketches on blue paper which Turner made of this city on the 1826 tour of Northern France.1 See the Introduction to this section for a list of these works.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.100.
Technical Notes:
The sheet belongs to a batch of blue paper used by Turner made by George Steart of Bally, Ellen and Steart at De Montault Mill, Coombe Down, Bath.1
1
Ibid. p.238.
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil with the notes ‘D. 25038’ and ‘235 | o’ in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet.

John Chu
March 2016

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