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 68 Verso:
Nantes, Brittany 1826
D23121
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 68a
Pencil on white laid paper, 167 x 105 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘10’, ‘Ionic Col’, ‘8’ top right, ‘Mast and [...] | coiled up under Mats’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled much of this page with studies of the Corinthian portico of the ThéâtreGraslin at Nantes. The pages of this volume feature many depictions of this Brittany city, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction. Along the bottom of edge of the page is a study of barges.

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-r1184949, accessed 19 April 2024.