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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tours Cathedral, Loire Valley 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tours Cathedral, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Tours Cathedral, Loire Valley 1826
D34677
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 242
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 172 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘M[...] Charpentier’ bottom left
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV – 242’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This pencil study of Tours cathedral is worked onto a sheet of folded Whatman paper which Turner took on his 1826 tour of Northern France.1 For a list of the sketches of Tours he made on that journey on loose sheets of paper, see the Introduction to this section.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.23–4.
Technical Notes:
The sheet is attached to D34678 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 243) along the top edge.
Verso:
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John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Tours Cathedral, Loire Valley 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-tours-cathedral-loire-valley-r1185613, accessed 20 September 2024.