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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Villequier, Normandy ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Villequier, Normandy’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
Villequier, Normandy ?1832
D23555
Turner Bequest CCLII 19a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Ville’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, the drawing on the top half of this page depicts Villequier on the Normandy banks of the Seine from a southerly vantage. Ships’ masts cluster around the shoreline while the surrounding hills shelter the sixteenth-century spire of the Church of Saint-Martin.1 On the bottom half of the page is a second view of the same subject taken a little to the east. For Turner’s watercolour of Villequier of around this date, see Tate D24669 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 104).

John Chu
April 2014

1
Dominique Auzias and Jean-Paul Labourdette, Normandie, Caen 2010, p.439.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Villequier, 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-villequier-normandy-r1175047, accessed 19 September 2024.