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 The Porte de Bretagne, Peronne 1836

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Porte de Bretagne, Peronne’ 1836
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
The Porte de Bretagne, Peronne 1836
D29044
Turner Bequest CCXCIII 7
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?] P’ bottom left
Inscribed, possibly by John Ruskin, in blue ink ‘7’ top right and ‘320’ bottom right
Stamped in brown ‘CCXCIII 7’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This structure is the Porte de Bretagne, Peronne, as indicated by Turner’s notation ‘P’. For a more distant view of the walled citadel of Peronne, presumably sketched first as Turner approached it, see the verso (D29045).

David Hill
June 2010

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The Porte de Bretagne, Peronne 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-the-porte-de-bretagne-peronne-r1144593, accessed 21 November 2024.