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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Lillebonne Castle, Normandy ?1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
?Lillebonne Castle, Normandy ?1832
D23537
Turner Bequest CCLII 8a
Pencil on white wove paper, 187 x 114 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned vertically, Turner recorded two views of a hilly terrain surmounted by tall architectural structures on this page. Both the Channel Islands and the Seine valley abound in such features, of which the castle at Lillebonne, about three miles north of Quillebeuf-sur-Seine, shares the outlines of these sketches. For comparisons, see examples of the watercolours on this subject which Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time: Tate D24675 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 110), D24676 (Turner Bequest CCCLIX 111), and D24807 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 242). These culminated in two engravings in the 1834 volume of Turner’s Annual Tour: Wanderings by the Loire and Seine (1833–5; later reissued as Rivers of France); see Tate impressions T05599 and T05600.

John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Lillebonne Castle, Normandy ?1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-lillebonne-castle-normandy-r1175029, accessed 29 March 2024.