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 Market Place, Angers 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Market Place, Angers’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 40 Verso:
Market Place, Angers
D23229
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 40a
Pencil on white laid paper, 110 x 170 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘B C[...]’ centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘8’ bottom right, descending vertically, ‘355’ bottom 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. The central scene has been traced to the city’s main market square with the spires of the gothic cathedral rising beyond.1Turner 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, ‘Market Place, Angers 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-market-place-angers-r1185061, accessed 20 September 2024.