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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Sketches, Including One of a Bay and Headland, ?France 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Sketches, Including One of a Bay and Headland, ?France’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 103 Recto:
Two Sketches, Including One of a Bay and Headland, ?France 1820
D16882
Turner Bequest CXCIII 102
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 94 mm
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘[?autrimilia’] within upper sketch
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘102’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CXCIII 102’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subjects of these two sketches are currently unidentified, although they are likely to relate to Turner’s return journey from Italy through France in January 1820. The uppermost study appears to represent a bay with a headland, and the composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 102 verso (D16881; Turner Bequest CXCIII 101a).

Nicola Moorby
March 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Sketches, Including One of a Bay and Headland, ?France 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-two-sketches-including-one-of-a-bay-and-headland-france-r1138657, accessed 01 April 2026.