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 > Cherbourg, Coutances and Mont St Michel ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures in Local Dress, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures in Local Dress, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
Figures in Local Dress, Normandy 1826
D23375
Turner Bequest CCL 22
Pencil on white laid paper, 131 x 91 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blue G[...] R[...]st and Bl’ centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘22’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCL – 22’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, the female figures worked onto this page are depicted in the local dress of Normandy. Particular attention has been paid to their elaborate headdresses, although space has also been made for a study of a broom.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Figures in Local Dress, Normandy 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, 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-figures-in-local-dress-normandy-r1185216, accessed 26 April 2024.