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 Mont Saint-Michel; Coutances, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mont Saint-Michel; Coutances, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 53 Recto:
Mont Saint-Michel; Coutances, Normandy 1826
D23437
Turner Bequest CCL 53
Pencil on white laid paper, 91 x 131 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘53’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCL – 53’ 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 the island-settlement Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy. In the lower half of the page is sketch of the cathedral at Coutances, which continues onto folio 52 verso (D23436; Turner Bequest CCL 52a). Multiple pages in this volume feature sketches of these sites, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Mont Saint-Michel; Coutances, 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-mont-saint-michel-coutances-normandy-r1185278, accessed 26 April 2024.