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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tower at Oudon, Loire Valley c.1826-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tower at Oudon, Loire Valley’ c.1826-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Tower at Oudon, Loire Valley c.1826–8
D24751
Turner Bequest CCLIX 186
Watercolour, gouache and red ink on blue paper, 145 x 195 mm
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIII – 186’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner worked up this colour study on blue paper of the medieval tower at Oudon from sketches he made in the Nantes, Angers and Saumur sketchbook during his 1826 tour of the Loire Valley. See entry for Tate D23174 (Turner Bequest CCXLVIII 12a).1
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.220 no.68.
Technical Notes:
The sheet belongs to a batch of dense blue paper with dark fibres used by Turner made by George Steart of Bally, Ellen and Steart at De Montault Mill, Coombe Down, Bath. 1
1
Ibid. p.238.
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil with the pencil note ’29 | b’ in the centre of the page and ‘CCLIX . 186’ and ‘D24751’ in the bottom right-hand corner. Stamped in black with the Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCLIX – 186’ in the centre of the page.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Tower at Oudon, Loire Valley c.1826–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2016, 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-tower-at-oudon-loire-valley-r1185539, accessed 10 May 2024.