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 15 Recto:
Le Havre, Normandy 1826
D23485
Turner Bequest CCLI 15
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 83 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘15’ bottom left inverted , ‘199’ top left inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 15’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled much of this page with studies of quayside buildings in Le Havre. The fortified Tower of François I features prominently. 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.

John Chu
July 2015

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-r1185328, accessed 26 April 2024.