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 Cathedral, Coutances 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cathedral, Coutances’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Verso:
Cathedral, Coutances 1826
D23434
Turner Bequest CCL 51a
Pencil on white laid paper, 131 x 91 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘?Bureaux | Rd Roul[...] a[...] |[...]pa[...] [...]o | [...]llo[..] | [...] | [...] m[...]m[...]n’ top right, ‘T[...] | [...] | [...] T[...] R[...]’ bottom left, ‘[...]us[...]e’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with a depiction of the cathedral at Coutances in Normandy. The western façade of the building is shown from the south. Multiple pages in this volume feature sketches of this settlement and its monuments, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Cathedral, Coutances 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-cathedral-coutances-r1185275, accessed 26 April 2024.