J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Rouen, Le Havre, Caen, Bayeux and Isigny ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal Terrain, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Terrain, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Verso:
Coastal Terrain, Normandy 1826
D23524
Turner Bequest CCLI 34a
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 83 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with several coastal views. The seaside of Normandy is the subject of extensive study in this volume so this drawing was probably made in that region.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Coastal Terrain, Normandy 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-coastal-terrain-normandy-r1185367, accessed 20 April 2024.