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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Porte de Mars, Reims 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Porte de Mars, Reims’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 68 Verso:
The Porte de Mars, Reims 1836
D29165
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 68a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook, this is a more careful study, with various details, of the Porte de Mars at Reims of which a hurried sketch is on the recto of this page (D29164; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 68).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Porte de Mars, Reims 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-the-porte-de-mars-reims-r1144713, accessed 10 May 2024.