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 ?Mouth of the Seine. Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Mouth of the Seine. Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Verso:
?Mouth of the Seine. Normandy 1826
D23479
Turner Bequest CCLI 12
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 83 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blue’, ‘Yell’, ‘B[...]i’ centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘12’ bottom left inverted, ‘199’ top left inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 12’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled much of this page with studies of hilly terrain with buildings and a wide river valley. The landscape and settlements around the mouth of Seine was the subject of rather extensive study in this volume so Tate curator Ian Warrell has suggested that these sketches were made there.1 See the sketchbook introduction for a list of the places in this area recorded in these pages.

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.30, 207 note 12.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Mouth of the Seine. 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-mouth-of-the-seine-normandy-r1185322, accessed 17 May 2024.