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Picturesque Composition with a Distant View of Tours from the North East

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Date

ca. 1796

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)

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https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-picturesque-composition-with-a-distant-view-of-tours-from-the-north-east-d00673

Description

Turner's early training involved him making copies of depictions of the celebrated sights of the Italian Grand Tour. Though related to this kind of exercise, these two newly-identified watercolours show French scenes. Both were made at least five years before he travelled to France for the first time in 1802, and some thirty years before he actually went to the Touraine region himself. He may have based his copies on works in the collection of Dr Thomas Monro, like the Italian subjects, but the actual sources for the sketches have, so far, not been identified. The view of Blois is especially interesting in anticipating the composition of the subject engraved for Turner's Annual Tour, 1833 (no.123, next room).
Gallery label, August 2004
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Credit line: 'Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856'

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CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported)

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© Tate, London 2019

Location

Tours, France

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