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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > France, Savoy, Piedmont Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ramparts at Tournus 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ramparts at Tournus’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Ramparts at Tournus 1802
D04419
Turner Bequest LXXIII 27
Pencil, lightly touched with white chalk on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Do’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 27’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Tournus, and its Romanesque abbey of St Philibert, see also folios 19 and 26 of this sketchbook (D04411, D04418). Turner’s inscription, meaning ‘Ditto’, refers to the second of these Tournus subjects.
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David Blayney Brown
June 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Ramparts at Tournus 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-ramparts-at-tournus-r1133047, accessed 24 September 2024.