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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > First Italian Tour 1819-20 > Paris, France, Savoy 2 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Place de l'Antiquaille, Lyon 1819

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Place de l'Antiquaille, Lyon’ 1819
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Recto:
Place de l’Antiquaille, Lyon 1819
D14070
Turner Bequest CLXXIII 50
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 185 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil within sketch of doorway (see main entry)
Stamped in black ‘CLXXIII 50’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner made a small series of drawings of buildings and views in Lyon. The subject of this sketch is the Place de l’Antiquaille, located on the Fourvière Hill in the western quarter of the city.1 The location is so-named after the Hôpital de l’Antiquaille, a medical hospital housed since 1804 in the buildings of a former castle and convent. The vista looks south-east towards the entrance to the hospital, a rusticated arched doorway topped by a pediment and bearing an inscription partially transcribed by the artist, ‘HOSP[ICI] | L’AN[TIQO]’. For further sketches of Lyon see folio 51 (D14071).
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Compare, for example, a drawing by Francisque Gabillot (1818–1876) in the Collection Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, reproduced online at http://www.bm-lyon.fr/expo/07/lp/images/grd/37-Ms6775.jpg, accessed March 2013.
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Nicola Moorby
March 2013

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Place de l’Antiquaille, Lyon 1819 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-place-de-lantiquaille-lyon-r1142928, accessed 23 April 2024.