Joseph Mallord William Turner

Riverside Terrain with Buildings, 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
D24475
Turner Bequest CCLVII 157

Catalogue entry

With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with a view of a riverside landscape punctuated by buildings. A sketch of a cloud with sunrays or falling rain is included in the top left-hand quadrant of the page. Turner travelled extensively around the satellite settlements of Paris in the Île-de-France with the sketchbook and also up the Marne River to the east of the city so these drawings were probably made in one of those regions.

John Chu
January 2015

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