J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Rouen, Le Havre, Caen, Bayeux and Isigny ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Rouen, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Rouen, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Recto:
?Rouen, Normandy 1826
D23459
Turner Bequest CCLI 2
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 83 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘2’ bottom right, descending vertically, ‘199’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 2’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with a scene of densely packed buildings with figures in the local dress of Normandy.1 A list of the towns and cities of this region recorded in these pages is provided in the sketchbook introduction for comparison.

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.33, 208 note 22.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Rouen, Normandy 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-rouen-normandy-r1185302, accessed 17 May 2024.