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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rocky Cliffs; ?Cap de la Hève, Normandy 1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rocky Cliffs; ?Cap de la Hève, Normandy’ 1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 88 Verso:
Rocky Cliffs; ?Cap de la Hève, Normandy 1832
D24056
Turner Bequest CCLIV 88a
Pencil on white wove paper, 174 x 117 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner recorded an expansive coastal view from atop high cliffs on this page. The lighthouses at Cap de la Hève near Le Havre in Normandy recur several times in this part of the sketchbook, perhaps locating this rocky scene close to that high headland. A list of pages in the sketchbook featuring Le Havre and Cap de la Hève is provided in the entry for folio 48 recto (D23975; Turner Bequest CCLIV 48).

John Chu
July 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Rocky Cliffs; ?Cap de la Hève, 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-rocky-cliffs-cap-de-la-heve-normandy-r1173461, accessed 26 April 2024.