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 Ramparts and Gateway at Langres 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ramparts and Gateway at Langres’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Recto:
Ramparts and Gateway at Langres 1836
D29159
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 65a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Gateway’
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘65’ bottom left, inverted and ‘320’ top left, inverted
Inscribed by an unknown hand ‘65’ bottom left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This side of the page is now bound as the recto rather than the verso as stamped and described by Finberg. There are two sketches:
i. (main sketch, drawn inverted in relation to the main numbered sequence of subjects in the sketchbook) The left part of a two-part panorama of Langres, with the St Didier gate, looking towards the Orval and Navarra towers, continued to the right on the facing page (D29157; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 64a). The whole panorama is more or less the continuation to the right of the view on D29155; Turner Bequest CCXCIII 63a.
ii. ‘Gateway’ ?at Langres.

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Ramparts and Gateway at Langres 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-ramparts-and-gateway-at-langres-r1144706, accessed 26 November 2024.