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 Windmill and Church Tower, ?near Nantes 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Windmill and Church Tower, ?near Nantes’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 63 Recto:
Windmill and Church Tower, ?near Nantes 1826
D23114
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 63
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVII – 63’ top right, ascending vertically
 
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 loose study of a windmill and church tower. Tate curator Ian Warrell has suggested that the drawing was taken near Nantes.1 The pages of this volume feature many depictions of Nantes, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction for comparison.
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Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.232.
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John Chu
September 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Windmill and Church Tower, ?near Nantes 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-windmill-and-church-tower-near-nantes-r1184942, accessed 24 April 2024.