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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Medieval Defences, Angers 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Medieval Defences, Angers’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Medieval Defences, Angers 1826
D24920
Turner Bequest CCLX 84
Pencil and chalk on blue paper, 124 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘84’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLX 84’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts part of the medieval defences of Angers from a position close to the castle. 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 It may once have been attached along one edge to Tate D24918 (Turner Bequest CCLX 82).2
1
Ibid. p.238.
2
Ibid. p.216.
Verso:
Inscribed in red ink with the note ‘39’ and in the bottom left-hand corner of the sheet and in pencil with the notes ‘D.24920’ and ‘107c’ on the bottom right-hand corner.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Medieval Defences, 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-medieval-defences-angers-r1185581, accessed 27 July 2024.