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 10 Recto:
Caen, Normandy 1826
D23495
Turner Bequest CCLI 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 83 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘St G[...]s’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘20’ top right, ‘199’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 20’ 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 a wharf and distant spires. 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-r1185338, accessed 20 April 2024.