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 River Valley, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Valley, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Recto:
River Valley, Normandy 1826
D23477
Turner Bequest CCLI 11
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[...]ax’ centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘11’ top left ascending vertically, ‘199’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 11’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled much of this page with studies of a wide river valley. The terrain around the mouth of Seine was the subject of rather extensive study in this volume so these sketches were probably made there. See the sketchbook introduction for a list of the places in this area recorded in these pages.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘River Valley, 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-river-valley-normandy-r1185320, accessed 26 April 2024.