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

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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Cap de la Hève, Normandy’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
?Cap de la Hève, Normandy ?1832
D23560
Turner Bequest CCLII 22
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘22’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLII – 22’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, the multiple small drawings on this page depict coastal terrain terminating in high cliffs. Such views abound in the Channel Islands and on the Normandy coast, both the subject of extensive study in this volume.

John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Cap de la Hève, 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-cap-de-la-heve-normandy-r1175052, accessed 20 September 2024.