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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Waterside Buildings, ?Channel Islands or Normandy ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Waterside Buildings, ?Channel Islands or Normandy’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Verso:
Waterside Buildings, ?Channel Islands or Normandy ?1832
D23664
Turner Bequest CCLII 75a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner worked two sketches of waterside buildings onto this page, with the bottom drawing inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated. In the top sketch, buildings are perched on the top of a headland while, in the lower image, a settlement clusters by the water’s edge. Such topography abounded in the Channel Islands and in the wide embouchure of the Seine, both of which were extensively studied in this sketchbook.

John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Waterside Buildings, ?Channel Islands or 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-waterside-buildings-channel-islands-or-normandy-r1175156, accessed 19 September 2024.