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 Lorient, Brittany 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Lorient, Brittany’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Recto:
Lorient, Brittany 1826
D23147
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 87
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘open’ top left, ‘Gal’, ‘Red’ top right, ‘Quay’ centre left
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVII – 87’top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with studies of the seaside town of Lorient. Drawings of this location in Brittany are featured 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, ‘Lorient, 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-lorient-brittany-r1184975, accessed 26 April 2024.