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 Bishop's Palace, Quimper 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bishop's Palace, Quimper’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Recto:
Bishop’s Palace, Quimper 1826
D23128
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 72
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘8’, ‘3’ centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in illegible red ink, bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVII – 72’ 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 study of the Bishop’s Palace at Quimper. Drawings of this Brittany settlement feature on several pages of this volume, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
September 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Bishop’s Palace, Quimper 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-bishops-palace-quimper-r1184956, accessed 19 April 2024.