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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Morlaise to Nantes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Brest, Brittany 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Brest, Brittany’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
Brest, Brittany 1826
D23040
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 16a
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Joli[...]’, ‘CL’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a study of the castle and harbour in the Brittany town of Brest. Tate curator Ian Warrell has suggested that Turner used this sketch when devising an unfinished oil painting in the Turner Bequest; see Tate N05514. 1 Brest features on multiple pages in this part of the volume, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
September 2015

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Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.231; Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.528 no.527, pl. 511.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Brest, Brittany 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-brest-brittany-r1184868, accessed 23 September 2024.