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 Nantes, Brittany 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Nantes, Brittany’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso:
Nantes, Brittany 1826
D23068
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 31a
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘T[...]ton’ centre right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the centre of this page with a distant view of the Pont Pirmil in Nantes. The pages of this volume feature many depictions of this Brittany city, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
September 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Nantes, 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-nantes-brittany-r1184896, accessed 26 April 2024.