J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Nantes, Angers and Saumur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Castle Walls, Angers 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Castle Walls, Angers’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
Castle Walls, Angers 1826
D23224
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 38
Pencil on white laid paper, 110 x 170 mm
Partial unidentified watermark
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVIII 38’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the middle of this page with a view of the medieval city of Angers, located on the River Maine close to its confluence with the Loire. The fortified structure in the upper part of the sketch has been identified as the walled castle.1 He has also noted that the artists worked a closely comparable view of this subject on a sheet of blue paper; see Tate D25040 (Turner Bequest CCLXI 68). 2Turner made extensive study of Angers in this volume. A list of his drawings of the city is provided in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
April 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p. 235.
2
Ibid.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Castle Walls, Angers 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-castle-walls-angers-r1185056, accessed 20 May 2025.