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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Le Havre, Normandy ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Le Havre, Normandy’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 38 Recto:
?Le Havre, Normandy ?1832
D23592
Turner Bequest CCLII 38
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Partial watermark ‘YMAN | 28’
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Cor[...] H[...] M[...]’ towards top centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘38’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLII – 38’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled much of this page with panoramas of coastal terrain punctuated by harbour infrastructure and shipping; the sketch second from the top is inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated. Although most of the features described here are too generic or cursory to identify a location, the view recorded towards the bottom of the page, with a fully-rigged ship seen on the port side, may represent a view north across Le Havre, Normandy with the heights of Sainte-Adresse glimpsed in the far distance. The view would therefore reverse the vantage recorded on folios 41 recto (D23597; Turner Bequest CCLII 41) and 45 recto (D23603; Turner Bequest CCLII 45).
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John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Le Havre, 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-le-havre-normandy-r1175084, accessed 25 April 2024.