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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tancarville, Normandy ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tancarville, Normandy’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
Tancarville, Normandy ?1832
D23566
Turner Bequest CCLII 25
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Partial watermark ‘YMAN | 28’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘25’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLII – 25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The two sketches on this page record views of the riverside village of Tancarville, located some fourteen miles upstream from Le Havre on the Normandy banks of the Seine. The drawing on the lower half of the page is inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated. The extensive ruins of the settlement’s medieval castle are clearly visible in both views. 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-r1175058, accessed 20 September 2024.