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 Cave Dwelling near Saumur, Loire Valley 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cave Dwelling near Saumur, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Recto:
Cave Dwelling near Saumur, Loire Valley 1826
D23240
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 46
Pencil on white laid paper, 110 x 170 mm
Partial unidentified watermark
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVIII 46’ 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 drawing of one the cave dwellings which are a particular feature of the countryside around Saumur in the Loire Valley. Several pages in this volume feature these distinctive habitations; a list of these drawings is included in the sketchbook introduction. Turner subsequently worked up a colour study of one of these Saumurois caves on blue paper; see Tate D23240 (Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 46).

John Chu
April 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Cave Dwelling near Saumur, Loire Valley 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-cave-dwelling-near-saumur-loire-valley-r1185072, accessed 26 April 2024.