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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Angers, Loire Valley 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Angers, Loire Valley’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Angers, Loire Valley 1826
D25038
Turner Bequest CCLXI 66
Pencil on blue paper, 126 x 184 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘66’ bottom right
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Stamped in black ‘CCLXI 66’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts the city of Angers as viewed from right bank of the River Maine, close to the Haute Chaine, part of the town’s medieval defences. It is one of several pencil sketches on blue paper which Turner made of this city on the 1826 tour of Northern France.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.
Technical Notes:
The sheet belongs to a batch of blue paper 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 notes ‘D. 25038’ and ‘235 | o’ in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Angers, Loire Valley 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-angers-loire-valley-r1185585, accessed 25 April 2024.