Joseph Mallord William Turner

Tancarville Castle

?1829

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Tancarville and Lillebonne Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 156 × 107 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D23803
Turner Bequest CCLIII 53 a

Catalogue entry

The page contains a rough sketch of castle buildings. Finberg identified this as ‘Tancarville Castle’,1 and the location has been confirmed.2 The pointed roofs and arched gateway of the structure on the left correspond to those of the Châtelet d’Entrée, the castle’s entrance towards the town. (For further information on the castle see under folio 46 recto; D23788.)

Caroline South
May 2017

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.770.
2
?Ian Warrell, ‘Turner on the Seine: Topographical Index’, c.1999, Prints and Drawings Room, Tate Britain (printout in copy of Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999), p.5.

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