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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Lesmont, Northern France 1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Lesmont, Northern France’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 114 Recto:
?Lesmont, Northern France 1832
D24391
Turner Bequest CCLVII 114
Pencil on white laid paper, 175 x 127 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Lemoins Aube’ bottom centre, ‘Aube’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘114’ top left and ‘2’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLVII 114’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with a view of clustered buildings in a wooded landscape. A note towards the bottom right-hand corner of the page indicates that this is a settlement on the River Aube, where Turner went sketching towards the end of the 1832 tour. Art historian Ian Warrell had transcribed the first word of the note as a misspelling of Lesmont, a small town on the Aube.1

John Chu
January 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, p.60.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Lesmont, Northern France 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-lesmont-northern-france-r1175419, accessed 20 April 2024.