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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Morlaise to Nantes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner La Roche-Bernard, Brittany 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘La Roche-Bernard, Brittany’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 87 Recto:
La Roche-Bernard, Brittany 1826
D23145
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 86
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘RochBernard’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVII – 86’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with drawings of the estuary settlement of La Roche-Bernard. The upper sketch shows a view down the River La Vilaine while the sketch below shows the village with a carriage in the foreground flanked by jagged rocks. Several studies of this location in Brittany are featured in this part of the volume, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
September 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘La Roche-Bernard, Brittany 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-la-roche-bernard-brittany-r1184973, accessed 30 September 2025.