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 × 98 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D23494
Turner Bequest CCLI 19 a

Catalogue entry

Turner filled much of this page with studies of a densely packed cityscape with towers and substantial buildings. Tate curator Ian Warrell located these scenes to the town of Caen in Normandy.1 The artist filled several pages of the present volume with studies of Caen, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.30, 207 note 15.

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