J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Angers, North West France 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Angers, North West France 1826
D23209
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 30a
Pencil on white laid paper, 110 x 170 mm
Partial unidentified watermark
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Clo[...]’ bottom left-hand corner
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘18’ top left, descending verticall, ‘355’ top right, 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. Most of the page is taken up with a study of the riverfront dominated by the castle. The small drawing in the upper right-hand quadrant of the page has been identified as a depiction of the riverside area of the city known as La Doutre. 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. 235.

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-r1185041, accessed 26 April 2024.