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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Paris from a High Vantage 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Paris from a High Vantage’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Recto:
Paris from a High Vantage 1832
D24263
Turner Bequest CCLVII 50
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘50’ bottom right and ‘2’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 50’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the top half of this page with cursory drawings of Paris seen from a high vantage. The dome which appears in the top right-hand corner of the page may belong to Les Invalides or the Panthéon. Multiple panoramas of the city were sketched on this tour, contributing to the background vista of an engraved illustration for a new edition of Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1834–36); see Tate impression T04744.

John Chu
January 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Paris from a High Vantage 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-paris-from-a-high-vantage-r1175291, accessed 19 April 2024.