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The page contains a rough sketch, of a castle within a hilly landscape looking over to the River Seine on the right. Finberg identified it as ‘Château de Tancarville’, and compared it with the engraving mentioned below.
1 The location has been confirmed.
2Art historian Andrew Wilton states
3 that this sketch was the preliminary drawing for Turner’s later watercolour,
Tancarville from the East (‘Front View’), c.1832 (Tate
D24693; Turner Bequest CCLIX 128),
4 which was engraved for
Turner’s Annual Tour –
Wanderings by the Seine, 1834 (Tate impressions:
T05597,
T06226), although the viewpoints in sketch and watercolour appear quite different.
Art historian Ian Warrell states
5 that this sketch (and possibly folio 12 recto;
D23721) was the preliminary sketch for another of Turner’s later watercolours,
The Tour Coquesart at Tancarville, Normandy, c.1832 (Tate
D24721; Turner Bequest CCLIX 156). (For further information on the castle, see under folio 46 recto;
D23788.)
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