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 Cathedral of St-Maurice; Bishop's Palace, Angers 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cathedral of St-Maurice; Bishop's Palace, Angers’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Cathedral of St-Maurice; Bishop’s Palace, Angers 1826
D23202
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 27
Pencil on white laid paper, 170 x 110 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘fol’ towards top left, ‘Parvis | St Maurice’ top right, ‘Ro[...]’, ‘Ho[...]’, ‘Blue | ?Osp’ ‘Cait’, ‘f...’ centre, ‘4figures on col and 7 Small’ centre, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVIII 27’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled most this page with a study of the Cathedral of St-Maurice at Angers, located on the River Maine close to its confluence with the Loire. A study of the bishop’s palace has been identified at the bottom of the page.1 The sketch continues onto folio 26 verso (D23201; Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 27a). Turner made extensive study of Angers in this volume.

John Chu
April 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p. 234.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Cathedral of St-Maurice; Bishop’s Palace, 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-cathedral-of-st-maurice-bishops-palace-angers-r1185034, accessed 21 June 2025.