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 27 Recto:
Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Normandy 1826
D23509
Turner Bequest CCLI 27
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 83 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘St Aubin’, ‘Blue’ top right, ‘?Gails’ towards top left, ‘s[...] brightens for ‘b[...] | weather by [...] [...]y a [...] | [...]’ centre, ‘Cr[...]’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘27’ bottom left, inverted, ‘199’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 27’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with multiple studies of buildings, boats and figures in coastal terrain. A pencil note towards the top right-hand corner of the page locates these sketches to the vicinity of Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer on the Normandy coast. 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

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-r1185352, accessed 20 April 2024.