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 > Loire, Tours, Orleans and Paris ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Church of Saint-Julien, Tours 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church of Saint-Julien, Tours’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Recto:
Church of Saint-Julien, Tours 1826
D23272
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 14
Pencil on white laid paper, 103 x 153 mm
Partial watermark of bunch of grapes
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘14’ bottom right, descending vertically, ‘266’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIX 14’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with an interior study of the gothic Church of Saint-Julien in Tours. This is one of a number of pages featuring the architecture of this building in this volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Church of Saint-Julien, Tours 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-church-of-saint-julien-tours-r1185109, accessed 26 April 2024.