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 Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer; Honfleur, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer; Honfleur, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Recto:
Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer; Honfleur, Normandy 1826
D23473
Turner Bequest CCLI 9
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Saint-Aubin’ towards top right, ascending, ‘L[...] towards bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘9’ bottom right, descending vertically, ‘199’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 9’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with multiple studies of buildings and settlements in coastal terrain. A pencil note towards the top right-hand corner of the page identifies the adjacent scene to the vicinity of Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer. Tate curator Ian Warrell identified other of the scenes depicted here as the harbour town of Honfleur.1 The artist filled several pages of the present volume with studies of these Normandy towns, lists of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, pp.110, 259 note 34.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer; Honfleur, 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-saint-aubin-sur-mer-honfleur-normandy-r1185316, accessed 09 May 2024.