Joseph Mallord William Turner

Caen, Normandy

1826

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Rouen, Le Havre, Caen, Bayeux and Isigny Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 122 x 98 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D23472
Turner Bequest CCLI 8 a

Catalogue entry

Turner filled this page with multiple studies of streets with figures and densely-packed buildings. Notes in pencil in the centre of the page identify these sketches as depictions of Caen. The artist filled several pages of the present volume with studies of this medieval Normandy town, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

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