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 Place du Grand Marché, Tours 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Place du Grand Marché, Tours’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Place du Grand Marché, Tours 1826
D34686
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 247
Pencil on white wove paper, 125 x 176 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Caffe du Gd Marche [...]’ bottom centre, ‘Bla[...]’ towards bottom right
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIC 247’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This view of the Place du Grand Marché at Tours with the Tour de l'Horloge in the middle distance is one of several sketches on loose paper which Turner made in this city on his 1826 tour of Northern France. See the Introduction to this section for a list of these works.
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John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Place du Grand Marché, Tours 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-place-du-grand-marche-tours-r1185621, accessed 23 April 2024.