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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Coutances, Normandy c.1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coutances, Normandy’ c.1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Coutances, Normandy c.1826
D20516
Turner Bequest CCXXIV 204
Pencil on blue paper, 129 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXXIV – 204’ top right, ascending vertically
Turner specialist, Ian Warrell, has identified this sketch as a view of the landscape outside Coutances in Normandy.1 The ruins of the medieval aqueduct can be seen crossing the centre of the composition. See the Introduction to this section for a list of sketches on loose sheets of this site associated with the 1826 tour of Northern France.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.216.
Technical Notes:
The sheet once formed part of a larger sheet with D20517 (Turner Bequest CCXXIV 205), D20525 and D20526 (Turner Bequest CCXXIV 212, 213).
Verso:
Inscribed in red ink with the note ‘204’ in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Coutances, Normandy c.1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2016, 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-coutances-normandy-r1185500, accessed 29 May 2025.