In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 131 × 187 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D24853
Turner Bequest CCLX 17
Display caption
The sheets displayed in this showcase all depict Angers, the capital of the area known as Anjou, and mostly focus on the views to be had close to the riverside. The addition of another four of the smaller pieces would complete the sixteen sections of the original sheet of blue paper, to give some idea of its size before Turner folded and tore it into more useful, pocket-size fragments. Turner sketched in pencil on similar sheets of blue paper at Nantes and Tours, but in contrast with those places, very few of the views of Angers were later worked up in colour (no.78). This is probably because Angers lies on the River Maine, rather than the Loire, which had become the object of Turner's special interest.
Gallery label, September 2004
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