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 Vannes, Brittany 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Vannes, Brittany’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Vannes, Brittany 1826
D23065
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 29a
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Vannes’ towards bottom left, ‘a Hotel Croix Verte Bureau de [...] | Chez Carli dans la B a’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a street study of the Brittany city of Vannes. The scene is dominated by the Chapelle Saint-Yves.

John Chu
September 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Vannes, 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-vannes-brittany-r1184893, accessed 13 May 2024.