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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Tancarville, Normandy ?1832

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
Tancarville, Normandy ?1832
D23565
Turner Bequest CCLII 24a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Partial watermark ‘YMAN | 28’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, these two views of rocky riverside terrain extend across the entire length of this page. The ruins of the medieval castle at Tancarville, perched on a rocky platform overlooking the Seine, form the focal point of the bottom sketch. The top sketch presumably depicts a view somewhere nearby in the river’s wide embouchure. For examples of Turner’s watercolours of Tancarville which he worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24693 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 128) and D24695 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 130). 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 T05597, T05598.

John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Tancarville, 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-tancarville-normandy-r1175057, accessed 29 March 2024.