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 > Rouen, Le Havre, Caen, Bayeux and Isigny ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Le Havre, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Le Havre, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Le Havre, Normandy 1826
D23464
Turner Bequest CCLI 4a
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Havre’ top centre, ‘Mouth Seine’ bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with panoramic vistas of distant coastal terrain. Turner’s pencil notes along the top and bottom edges of the page identify scene as the area around Le Havre. The artist filled several pages of the present volume with studies of this Normandy harbour town, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction for comparison.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Le Havre, Normandy 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-le-havre-normandy-r1185307, accessed 25 April 2024.