Joseph Mallord William Turner

Windmill and Church Tower, ?near Nantes

1826

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Morlaise to Nantes Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 105 × 167 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D23114
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 63

Catalogue entry

With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the centre of this page with a loose study of a windmill and church tower. Tate curator Ian Warrell has suggested that the drawing was taken near Nantes.1 The pages of this volume feature many depictions of Nantes, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction for comparison.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.232.
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John Chu
September 2015

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