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 Buildings and Hills, Brittany 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings and Hills, Brittany’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
Buildings and Hills, Brittany 1826
D23073
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 34a
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much with this page with a view across hilly terrain punctuated by ecclesiastical buildings, perhaps near Nantes.

John Chu
September 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Buildings and Hills, 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-buildings-and-hills-brittany-r1184901, accessed 19 April 2024.