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 33 Verso:
Nantes, Brittany 1826
D23071
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 33a
Pencil on white laid paper, 167 x 105 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘N’ top centre, ‘Borse. 10 Co’ towards top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled the upper part of this page with loose sketches of the facades of the Bourse and the Théâtre Graslinat Nantes. The pages of this volume feature many depictions of this 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-r1184899, accessed 20 September 2024.