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 ?Le Conquet, Normandy 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Le Conquet, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Verso:
?Le Conquet, Normandy 1826
D23047
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 20a
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 coastal terrain and buildings of Brittany. Tate curator Ian Warrell has suggested that the drawings depict the settlement of Le Conquet and its environs which feature on several pages in this part of the volume.1 A list of these is provided in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
September 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.231.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Le Conquet, Normandy 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-le-conquet-normandy-r1184875, accessed 26 April 2024.