Graphite on paper
Nantes, Angers and Saumur Sketchbook
Nantes, Angers and Saumur Sketchbook
Northern France c.1826-32
Northern France c.1826-32
France
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Nantes, Angers and Saumur Sketchbook
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Woman in Local Costume Shipping Loire Valley
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
adults
boat, sailing
boat, steam
clothing and personal items
countries and continents
France
hat, bonnet
objects
people
places
society
transport: water
woman
<p>The first half of this sketchbook charts Turner's voyage up the Loire from Nantes to Angers, a journey he made on one of the new steamers that had begun to work the river a couple of years before his visit. His sketches generally fall in neat rows down each page, indicating how he struggled to observe and record each new profile of the passing points of interest. On this opening he studied the abbey-church at St-Florent-le-Vieil, later developing two blue paper studies from the sketches (nos.71 and 114). St-Florent came at the middle of his day's journey, and it was at this point that his steamer would have passed its sister ship coming down the river from Angers.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite
Woman in Local Costume; Shipping, Loire Valley
support: 170 × 110 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
<p>The first half of this sketchbook charts Turner's  voyage up the Loire from Nantes to Angers, a  journey he made on one of the new steamers that  had begun to work the river a couple of years  before his visit. His sketches generally fall in  neat rows down each page, indicating how he  struggled to observe and record each new profile  of the passing points of interest. On this  opening he studied the abbey-church at  St-Florent-le-Vieil, later developing two blue  <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a> studies from the sketches (nos.71 and 114).  St-Florent came at the middle of his day's  journey, and it was at this point that his steamer  would have passed its sister ship coming down the  river from Angers.</p>
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adults boat, sailing boat, steam clothing and personal items countries and continents France hat, bonnet objects people places society transport: water woman
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