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 Bayeux, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bayeux, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
Bayeux, Normandy 1826
D23515
Turner Bequest CCLI 30
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Baye[...]’ left centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘30’ bottom right, descending vertically, ‘199’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 30’ bottom, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this this page with a study of a street with a gothic cathedral rising up beyond. A pencil note on the sketch locates the scene to Bayeux in Normandy. This medieval city features on multiple pages in this volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Bayeux, 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-bayeux-normandy-r1185358, accessed 26 April 2024.