Joseph Mallord William Turner

River Seine, Paris

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: 238 × 171 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D34440
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 83

Catalogue entry

These sketches are among several views of Paris which Turner worked onto a batch of white Whatman paper on his 1826 tour of Northern France.1 A list of these is provided in the Introduction to this section.

Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.23, 155.

Technical Notes:

The sketch is drawn on a sheet of paper folded in two. It is attached along the right-hand edge to D34439 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 82).

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John Chu
March 2016

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