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 Coaches 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coaches’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
Coaches 1826
D23462
Turner Bequest CCLI 3a
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘B’, ‘B’ towards top left, ‘P [...] of [...] | ?Coaches’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with loose studies of various wheeled conveyances, presumably taken at one of the Normandy towns or cities he recorded in this volume. A list of these is provided in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Coaches 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-coaches-r1185305, accessed 17 May 2024.