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 ?Church Interior; Coastal Terrain, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Church Interior; Coastal Terrain, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 46 Recto:
?Church Interior; Coastal Terrain, Normandy 1826
D23423
Turner Bequest CCL 46
Pencil on white laid paper, 91 x 131 mm
Partial watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘46’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCL – 46’ 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 sketches of a monumental interior with a flight of steps and columns. These were presumably taken in a church in one the towns of the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy which the artists recorded extensively in this volume. The sweeping coastal terrain depicted directly below was probably also located in this region. For the major sites covered by this contents of this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘?Church Interior; Coastal Terrain, 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-church-interior-coastal-terrain-normandy-r1185264, accessed 27 April 2024.