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 Caen, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Caen, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Verso:
Caen, Normandy 1826
D23494
Turner Bequest CCLI 19a
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 83 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bra[...]’ centre, ‘S[...]b [...]ly H[...]’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled much of this page with studies of a densely packed cityscape with towers and substantial buildings. Tate curator Ian Warrell located these scenes to the town of Caen in Normandy.1 The artist filled several pages of the present volume with studies of Caen, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.30, 207 note 15.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Caen, 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-caen-normandy-r1185337, accessed 24 September 2024.