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 ?Avranches, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Avranches, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso:
?Avranches, Normandy 1826
D23376
Turner Bequest CCL 22a
Pencil on white laid paper, 91 x 131 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘?Avranches’ towards top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with drawings of hillside buildings. A note towards the top left-hand corner of the page may locate these scenes to the town of Avranches in the south-eastern part of the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Avranches, 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-avranches-normandy-r1185217, accessed 20 April 2024.