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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cave Dwelling, Loire Valley c.1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cave Dwelling, Loire Valley’ c.1828
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Cave Dwelling, Loire Valley c.1828
D40128
Pencil on blue paper, 130 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Keepsake’ top left
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLIX . 145’ bottom right
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCLIX [...]’ bottom centre
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This rapid pencil study of the interior of a cave dwelling, probably located near Saumur in the Loire Valley, is associated with Turner’s tour of the region in 1826. See entry for Tate D24831
(Turner Bequest CCLIX 266) for another work on blue paper and also multiple pencil studies in the Nantes, Angers and Saumur sketchbook, which are listed in the Introduction to that volume.
Technical Notes:
The sheet belongs to a batch of blue paper with red fibres used by Turner made by George Steart of Bally, Ellen and Steart at De Montault Mill, Coombe Down, Bath. Another sheet from the batch bears a watermark dated 1828. 1
Unlike work on the verso of this sheet, this study was not catalogued by A.J. Finberg in his 1909 Inventory so lacks the usual Turner Bequest number.2
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.238.
2
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909.
Verso:
See entry for Tate D40128 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 145 verso).

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Cave Dwelling, Loire Valley c.1828 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2016, 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-cave-dwelling-loire-valley-r1185531, accessed 19 April 2024.