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 Honfleur, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Honfleur, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Verso:
Honfleur, Normandy 1826
D23468
Turner Bequest CCLI 6a
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with sketches of buildings and horse and cart. Tate curator Ian Warrell has identified the scene to Honfleur in Normandy.1 The artist filled several pages of the present volume with studies of this harbour town, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999, pp.110, 259 note 34

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Honfleur, 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-honfleur-normandy-r1185311, accessed 18 April 2024.