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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Avallon from the Saulieu Road 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Avallon from the Saulieu Road’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
Avallon from the Saulieu Road 1802
D04403
Turner Bequest LXXIII 11
Pencil, heightened with white chalk on light grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Avalon’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 11’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Turner’s first sketch of Avallon, seen from the Auxerre road, see folio 10 of this sketchbook (D04402). This and one other slighter memorandum on folio 12 (D04404) were drawn as he looked back at the town from the road south towards Saulieu. Here, the Hôtel de Condé, the spired Porte d’Horloge and the clock tower of St-Lazare are seen in the centre of the old town.
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David Blayney Brown
June 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Avallon from the Saulieu Road 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2004, 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-avallon-from-the-saulieu-road-r1133029, accessed 25 April 2024.