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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Villequier, Normandy 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Villequier, Normandy’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Recto:
Villequier, Normandy 1832
D24031
Turner Bequest CCLIV 76
Pencil on white wove paper, 174 x 117 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘N’ towards top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘76’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ink ‘CCLIV – 76’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner worked a wide landscape view of Villequier and its riverside surroundings along the top edge of this page. The spire of the sixteenth-century Church of Saint-Martin rises well clear of the settlement’s main cluster of buildings while a note reading ‘N’ towards the top right-hand corner of the page indicates the northerly direction of the prospect. For Turner’s watercolour of Villequier of around this date, see Tate D24669 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 104).

John Chu
July 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Villequier, Normandy 1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-villequier-normandy-r1173436, accessed 19 April 2024.