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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Tour to the Alps 1836 > Val d'Aosta Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner On the Ramparts at St Omer 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘On the Ramparts at St Omer’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
On the Ramparts at St Omer 1836
D29034
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 2
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘2’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 2’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the main section of a three-part panorama recording the view along the ramparts at St Omer, possibly looking in the opposite direction to the sketch on D29032; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 1, continued to the left on D29033; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 1a, opposite, and to the right on the verso, D29035; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 2a.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘On the Ramparts at St Omer 1836 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-on-the-ramparts-at-st-omer-r1144583, accessed 18 May 2024.