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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loose Studies of Northern France > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Grand Pont, Angers 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Grand Pont, Angers’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Grand Pont, Angers 1826
D20526
Turner Bequest CCXXIV 213
Pencil on blue paper, 256 x 190 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXXIV – 213’ bottom right, ascending vertically
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This pencil sketch depicts the Grand Pont of Angers crossing the River Maine. The tower of La Trinité terminates the scene on the left. This is one of several pencil sketches on blue paper which Turner made of this city on the 1826 tour of Northern France.1 See the Introduction to this section for a list of these.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.100.
Technical Notes:
This sketch occupies half of a piece of blue paper which was folded in two. It is attached along its bottom edge to D20525 (Turner Bequest CCXXIV 212). It once formed part of a larger sheet with D20516 and D20517 (Turner Bequest CCXXIV 204,205).1 The sheet belongs to a batch of blue paper used by Turner made by George Steart of Bally, Ellen and Steart at De Montault Mill, Coombe Down, Bath.2
1
Ibid. p.216.
2
Ibid. p.238.
Verso:
Inscribed in red ink ‘213’ in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Grand Pont, Angers 1826 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-grand-pont-angers-r1185505, accessed 23 April 2024.