Joseph Mallord William Turner

River Valley, 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: 83 × 122 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D23476
Turner Bequest CCLI 10 a

Catalogue entry

Turner filled much of this page with studies of a wide river valley. The terrain around the mouth of Seine was the subject of rather extensive study in this volume so these sketches were probably made there. See the sketchbook introduction for a list of the places in this area recorded in these pages.

John Chu
July 2015

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