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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Val d'Aosta Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Langres, the Rathaus Gate, Looking to the Roman Wall 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Langres, the Rathaus Gate, Looking to the Roman Wall’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 64 Recto:
Langres, the Rathaus Gate, Looking to the Roman Wall 1836
D29156
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 64
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘64’ bottom left, inverted, and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 64’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn inverted in relation to the main sequence of subjects in the sketchbook, this is another view of the Rathaus Gate and Roman wall at Langres; see also D29155; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 63a from the sketchbook. Finberg’s suggestion of Aosta as the present subject follows John Ruskin’s mistaken identification of D29155.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Langres, the Rathaus Gate, Looking to the Roman Wall 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-langres-the-rathaus-gate-looking-to-the-roman-wall-r1144704, accessed 20 April 2024.