By Kind Permission of Lancaster University Library
By Kind Permission of Lancaster University Library
See Palace at Blois.
J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851
Palace of Blois c.1826-30
Watercolour, body-colour and pencil with pen, on blue paper, 13x18.5cm
Engraving:
Engraved by R. Wallis, 1833
Steel engraving, 10x14.1cm
Engraved for Turner's Annual Tour-The Loire, 1833
Provenance: Thomas Griffith; Charles Stokes, 1850; by descent to Hannah Cooper, who sold it to Ruskin, Feb,1858; given by him to Oxford University, 1861
Further Comments: The pencil sketch of the 'Palace at Blois' appears in the 'Loire, Tours, Orléans and Paris' sketchbook.
Collection: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Visitors of)