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 with a Stagecoach, Tours 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church of Saint-Julien with a Stagecoach, Tours’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso:
Church of Saint-Julien with a Stagecoach, Tours 1826
D23334
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 45a
Pencil on white laid paper, 103 x 153 mm
Partial watermark of bunch of grapes
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sm[...] Royal ou[...]y’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with studies of the gothic Church of Saint-Julien in Tours.1 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. A drawing of a ‘diligence’, or stagecoach, is included in the lower left-hand quadrant of the page.

John Chu
May 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.236.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Church of Saint-Julien with a Stagecoach, 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-with-a-stagecoach-tours-r1185112, accessed 25 April 2024.