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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Morlaise to Nantes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal Terrain, Brittany 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Terrain, Brittany’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Coastal Terrain, Brittany 1826
D23043
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 18a
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with a studies of the coast of Brittany. Tate curator Ian Warrell has tentatively suggested that they represent scenes close to the seaside settlements of Brest and Le Conquet. These locations feature on multiple pages in this part of the volume, list of which are included in the sketchbook introduction for comparison.1

John Chu
September 2015

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Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.231.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Coastal Terrain, Brittany 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-coastal-terrain-brittany-r1184871, accessed 24 April 2024.