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 Le Havre, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Le Havre, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
Le Havre, Normandy 1826
D23484
Turner Bequest CCLI 14a
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘New York Hotel’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled much of this page with studies of quayside buildings. Tate curator Ian Warrell located the scene to the harbour of Le Havre in Normandy.1 The artist filled several pages of the present volume with studies of the settlements on this stretch of coast around the mouth of the River Seine, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction. A pencil note reading ‘New York Hotel’ led Warrell to speculate that this was the establishment where Turner stayed in Le Havre.2

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, pp.27, 265 no.8.
2
Ibid., p.27.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Le Havre, 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-le-havre-normandy-r1185327, accessed 17 May 2024.