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 Rouen, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rouen, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
Rouen, Normandy 1826
D23465
Turner Bequest CCLI 5
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘5’ bottom right, descending vertically, ‘199’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 5’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with studies taken at Rouen of boats and buildings with hilly terrain in the distance. There are several depictions of Rouen in these pages, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Rouen, 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-rouen-normandy-r1185308, accessed 25 April 2024.