Joseph Mallord William Turner

Turner filled this page with sketches taken at different sites in Normandy. The large gothic building at the centre of the page is Bayeux Cathedral, recognisable by the cathedral’s twin steeples. In his 1909 Inventory of the Turner Bequest, A.J. Finberg identified the town of Isigny-sur-Mer amongst these drawings, presumably referring to the small depiction of an ecclesiastical structure in the top right-hand corner of the page which resembles the Church of Saint-George in that location.1 Tate curator Ian Warrell located the coastal terrain sketched into the top left-hand corner to the vicinity of Le Havre.2