Joseph Mallord William Turner

Cathedral, Coutances

1826

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Cherbourg, Coutances and Mont St Michel Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 131 × 91 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D23356
Turner Bequest CCL 12

Catalogue entry

Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, the drawings on this page depict the gothic cathedral of Coutance in Normandy from the west. Multiple pages in this volume feature sketches of this settlement and its monuments, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
May 2015

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