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 17 Recto:
Brest, Brittany 1826
D23041
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 17
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Glow 4’ towards bottom left
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVII – 17’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
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, harbour, and arsenal of the Brittany town of Brest. The sketch may have been used by Turner 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.
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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.
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John Chu
September 2015

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-r1184869, accessed 19 April 2024.