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 > Loose Studies of Northern France > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Pont de Treilles, Angers 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Pont de Treilles, Angers’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Pont de Treilles, Angers 1826
D25037
Turner Bequest CCLXI 65
Pencil on blue paper, 127 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘65’ bottom right
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXI – 65’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This pencil sketch depicts the Pont des Treilles at Angers with the spires of the cathedral rising above surrounding buildings on the left-hand side of the composition. It is one of several pencil sketches on blue paper which Turner made of this city on the 1826 tour.1 See the Introduction to this section for a list of these works.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.100.
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil with the note ‘D. 25037’ in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Pont de Treilles, Angers 1826 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-pont-de-treilles-angers-r1185584, accessed 26 April 2024.