
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 111 x 173 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D34680
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 244 a
Display caption
The first of Turner's Loire sketchbooks covers only his journey as far upriver as SAumur, but he did not begin his next book until he was within sight of Tours. To bridge the distance between these two places he used some loose sheets of paper in order to set down hasty impression of the chateaux he glimpsed from the window of his coach (probably one of the lumbering vehicles known as a dligence). At Langeais he was able to make a more composed study of the chateaux, but those of Usse, Cinq-Mars-le-Pile and Luynes appear as little more than suggestive outlines. Once in Tours, these loose sheets also came in useful for studies of some of the principal buildings.
Gallery label, September 2004
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