Joseph Mallord William Turner

Building and Trees, Northern France

1832

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Paris and Environs Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 175 × 127 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D24211
Turner Bequest CCLVII 23 a

Catalogue entry

With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the top half of this page with a view of a small building with arched windows opening onto a riverside or landscape garden. The handling is too cursory here to identify a definite location for this scene although the surrounding pages are much taken up with the landscape of the Île-de-France. For a list of these drawings, see the sketchbook Introduction.

John Chu
January 2015

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