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 Angers, North West France 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Angers, North West France’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Angers, North West France 1826
D23204
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 28
Pencil on white laid paper, 110 x 170 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘28’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVIII 28’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with views of the medieval city of Angers, located on the River Maine close to its confluence with the Loire. The structure in the upper right-hand quadrant of the page has been identified as the fortified Tour de Guillou and the long view along the bottom of the page as the riverbank with the tower of the Church of La Trinité.1 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, ‘Angers, North West France 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-angers-north-west-france-r1185036, accessed 20 September 2024.