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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Angers, North West France’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Verso:
Angers, North West France 1826
D23221
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 36a
Pencil on white laid paper, 110 x 170 mm
Partial unidentified watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘12’ top left running vertically and ‘355’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with a view of the medieval city of Angers, located on the River Maine close to its confluence with the Loire. The fortified structure on the left-hand side of the central sketch has been identified as the Tour de Guillou.1 The castle walls are shown on the right-hand side of the central sketch and also in the smaller sketch in the bottom right-hand corner. 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-r1185053, accessed 23 September 2024.