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 Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Recto:
Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Normandy 1826
D23507
Turner Bequest CCLI 26
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘B[...]cale’ right centre, ‘Saint-Aubin’ towards bottom left, inverted
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘26’ top left, ascending vertically, ‘199’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 26’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with multiple studies of settlements in coastal terrain. A pencil note towards the bottom left-hand corner of the page locates these landscapes to the vicinity of Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer. The artist filled several pages of the present volume with studies of this stretch of the Normandy coast, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, 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-saint-aubin-sur-mer-normandy-r1185350, accessed 27 April 2024.