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; Le Havre, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer; Le Havre, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer; Le Havre, Normandy 1826
D23508
Turner Bequest CCLI 26a
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘Min[...]’ left centre, ‘W’, ‘Blue’, ‘W’ top right, ‘Saint-Aubin’ centre
 
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 the landscape in the lower half of the page to the vicinity of Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer. Tate curator Ian Warrell suggested that the remaining sketches were taken in the vicinity of Le Havre on the Normandy coast.1 The artist filled several pages of the present volume with studies of this area, 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 12

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer; Le Havre, 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-le-havre-normandy-r1185351, accessed 24 April 2024.