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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Morlaise to Nantes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Quimper, Brittany 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Quimper, Brittany’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
Quimper, Brittany 1826
D23055
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 24a
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘B[...] | Concarneau | Entre [...] | Pour Lorient | Vannes Nantes | Rennes Paris | St Lauan[...] | Marlie Pont Royale | De[...] R[...] | Q d[...]n| Plor[...]’ left centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a list of semi-decipherable French proper names and a sketch of the square in front of the Cathedral of Saint-Corentin in Quimper. This volume is scattered with depictions of this Brittany city, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
September 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Quimper, 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-quimper-brittany-r1184883, accessed 16 April 2024.