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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View of Avallon, France; and Sketch of the Bridge at ?Auxerre 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View of Avallon, France; and Sketch of the Bridge at ?Auxerre’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 96 Verso:
View of Avallon, France; and Sketch of the Bridge at ?Auxerre 1820
D16869
Turner Bequest CXCIII 95 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 94 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?Avalon]’ bottom left, ascending left-hand edge
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains a couple of sketches. Turner’s inscription identifies one extremely rough landscape view as Avallon, a town in Burgundy (Bourgogne), France, approximately thirty-two miles south-east of Auxerre. At the top of the page, meanwhile, is a drawing of a bridge, possibly that of Auxerre, see folio 96 verso (D16871; Turner Bequest CXCIII 96a). Both locations formed part of the artist’s route home from Italy in January 1820.

Nicola Moorby
March 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘View of Avallon, France; and Sketch of the Bridge at ?Auxerre 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-view-of-avallon-france-and-sketch-of-the-bridge-at-auxerre-r1138644, accessed 12 May 2025.