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 28 Verso:
Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy 1826
D23388
Turner Bequest CCL 28a
Pencil on white laid paper, 91 x 131 mm
 
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. For the major sites of the region recorded in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.
Technical Notes:
There are small orange stains in the centre 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-r1185229, accessed 25 April 2024.