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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats and Figures ?on the Normandy Coast 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats and Figures ?on the Normandy Coast’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Boats and Figures ?on the Normandy Coast 1824
D19963
Turner Bequest CCXVI 207 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Red Jacket | Blue W’ top left, ‘D Green’ | ‘Red P’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner records two beached fishing boats on the Normandy coast, most probably at or near the port of Dieppe. The artist has also sketched two locals: a male figure at top left wearing a ‘Red Jacket’ and a woman at right wearing a smock with ‘D[ark] Green’ sleeves carrying a basket on her back. See also Tate D19965; Turner Bequest CCXVI 209.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Boats and Figures ?on the Normandy Coast 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-boats-and-figures-on-the-normandy-coast-r1174758, accessed 22 September 2024.