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 The Saône Valley with a Tower 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Saône Valley with a Tower’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
The Saône Valley with a Tower 1802
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Turner Bequest LXXIII 29
Pencil on grey-buff laid paper, 138 x 215 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXIII 29’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner followed the Saône valley from Mâcon to Lyon – a distance of some forty-two miles taking him through Belleville, Villefranche and Trévoux. The tower has not been identified.
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David Blayney Brown
June 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Saône Valley with a Tower 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-the-saone-valley-with-a-tower-r1133049, accessed 22 September 2024.