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 Coastal Terrain and Figures, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Terrain and Figures, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Verso:
Coastal Terrain and Figures, Normandy 1826
D23506
Turner Bequest CCLI 25a
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 83 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘B[...]ys Ra[...]g the R[...] | Land all l[...] Sea G. [...] dark’ centre, ‘Blue’, ‘sands’, bottom right, inverted, ‘Lightning’ bottom left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled the upper half of this page with studies of coastal terrain, boats and figures. The settlements and scenery of the Normandy seaside were the subject of extensive study in these pages so these sketches were probably also taken in that region. For a list of the major sites recorded in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Coastal Terrain and Figures, 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-coastal-terrain-and-figures-normandy-r1185349, accessed 16 April 2024.