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 > Cherbourg, Coutances and Mont St Michel ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy 1826
D23336
Turner Bequest CCL 1
Pencil on white laid paper, 91 x 131 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Morl[...]’ towards top left, ‘G[...]’ left centre, inverted
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘1’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCL – 1’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the upper half of this page with a studies of the coastal terrain and architecture which he encountered as he travelled around the Cotentin Peninsula of Normandy. See the sketchbook introduction for the major sites of the region recorded in this volume. Light cloud studies occupy the lower half of the page.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-cotentin-peninsula-normandy-r1185176, accessed 20 April 2024.