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

Joseph Mallord William Turner Amboise, Loire Valley 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Amboise, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Verso:
Amboise, Loire Valley 1826
D23277
Turner Bequest CCXLIX 16a
Pencil on white laid paper, 153 x 103 mm
Partial watermark of bunch of grapes
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with drawings of the buildings of Amboise. The imposing stone castle is featured at the centre of the page. Turner subsequently used the drawings of the town in this volume as the basis for ideas for engraved reproduction, culminating in two printed illustrations for Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France);1 see Tate impressions T04683, T04684.

John Chu
May 2015

1
Luke Herrmann, Turner Prints: The Engraved Work of J.M.W. Turner, Oxford 1990, pp.171–83.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Amboise, Loire Valley 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-amboise-loire-valley-r1185116, accessed 25 April 2024.