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 Buildings, ?Nantes date not known

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings, ?Nantes’ date not known
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Buildings, ?Nantes
D40134
Pencil on blue paper, 128 x 184 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLIX . | [...] 235’ bottom centre
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The location of the buildings cursorily sketched in pencil on this sheet is unknown although the view of Nantes, derived from Turner’s 1826 tour of Northern France, on the verso suggests that these drawings also depict that city on the River Loire.1 For comparsion, see the Introduction to this section for a list of comparable studies of the city.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.220 under no.63.
Technical Notes:
The sheet belongs to a batch of dense blue paper with black fibres used by Turner made by George Steart of Bally, Ellen and Steart at De Montault Mill, Coombe Down, Bath. 1
Unlike work on the verso of this sheet, this study was not catalogued by A.J. Finberg in his 1909 Inventory so lacks the usual Turner Bequest number.2
1
Ibid. p.238.
2
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909.
Verso:
See entry for Tate D24800 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 235).

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Buildings, ?Nantes 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-buildings-nantes-r1185554, accessed 27 September 2024.