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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Nantes, Angers and Saumur Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Windmills near Saumur, Loire Valley 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Windmills near Saumur, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
Windmills near Saumur, Loire Valley 1826
D23242
Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 47
Pencil on white laid paper, 170 x 110 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVIII 47’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with views of windmills in the Loire Valley. The structure in the upper sketch has been identified as the Moulin de la Herpinière, situated around seven miles upstream of the city of Saumur.1

John Chu
April 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p. 235.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Windmills 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-windmills-near-saumur-loire-valley-r1185074, accessed 26 April 2024.