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

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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 20 Recto:
Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy 1826
D23371
Turner Bequest CCL 20
Pencil on white laid paper, 91 x 131 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘?Jersey’ bottom centre, inverted
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘20’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCL – 20’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with loose studies of the coastal terrain and architecture which he encountered as he travelled around the Cotentin Peninsula of Normandy. A note on the sketch at the bottom of page, inverted in relation to those above, may identify the scene to the Normandy coast looking out towards Jersey. A plan of a regulated watercourse or harbour seems to have been roughly jotted down on the right-hand side of the page transecting the coastal views.

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-r1185212, accessed 26 April 2024.