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 Verso:
Le Havre, Normandy 1826
D23486
Turner Bequest CCLI 15a
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 83 mm
 
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. Tate curator Ian Warrell previously located the scenes depicted to the nearby town of Honfleur although Le Havre’s distinctive Tower of François I features prominently in the upper half of the page.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.

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, ‘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-r1185329, accessed 17 May 2024.