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 > Nantes, Angers and Saumur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Tour St-Aubin, Angers 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tour St-Aubin, Angers’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
Tour St-Aubin, Angers 1826
D23201
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 26a
Pencil on white laid paper, 170 x 110 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘22’ bottom left, inverted, ‘355’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In the upper left-hand quadrant of this page Turner worked a study of the Tour St-Aubin in the medieval city of Angers, located on the River Maine close to its confluence with the Loire. A sketch of the city’s medieval walls has been identified in the bottom right-hand corner.1 The sketch continues onto folio 25 verso (D23199; Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 25a). Turner made extensive study of Angers in this volume. A list of his drawings of the city is provided in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
April 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p. 234

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Tour St-Aubin, Angers 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-tour-st-aubin-angers-r1185033, accessed 25 April 2024.