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 Figures, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Recto:
Figures, Normandy 1826
D23385
Turner Bequest CCL 27
Pencil on white laid paper, 131 x 91 mm
Partial watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘27’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCL – 27’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, the figures which Turner worked onto the left-hand side of this page appear in contrasting dress. The large female figure carrying parcels is in modest dress of shawl and clogs while, directly below, is a fashionable couple sporting a large bonnet and tall hat. The larger figure has been identified as a woman of the harbour of Granville.1
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Maurice Guillaud, Nicholas Alfrey, Andrew Wilton and others, Turner en France: aquarelles, peintures, dessins, gravures, carnets de croquis / Turner in France: Watercolours, Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Sketchbooks, exhibition catalogue, Centre Culturel du Marais, Paris 1981, p.304.
Technical notes:
There is a small brown stain at the top of the page.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Figures, 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-figures-normandy-r1185226, accessed 21 September 2024.