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 Pont des Treilles, Angers 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pont des Treilles, Angers’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Recto:
Pont des Treilles, Angers 1826
D23228
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 40
Pencil on white laid paper, 110 x 170 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVIII 40’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a view of the medieval city of Angers, located on the River Maine close to its confluence with the Loire. The structures recorded are the bridge running across the scene as the Ponts des Treilles and 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. 235.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Pont des Treilles, 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-pont-des-treilles-angers-r1185060, accessed 24 April 2024.