J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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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 Bayeux; ?Le Havre, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bayeux; ?Le Havre, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Recto:
Bayeux; ?Le Havre, Normandy 1826
D23513
Turner Bequest CCLI 29
Pencil on white wove paper, 122 x 83 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blue’ top left, ‘yellow | Wind’ centre, ‘Rue de P[...] | ‘?Oct’ left centre, descending vertically
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘29’ bottom left, inverted, ‘199’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 29’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled the lower half of this page with studies of the town and cathedral of Bayeux in Normandy. The top of the page also features coastal views with a sail boat. Tate curator Ian Warrell suggested that these drawing were taken in the vicinity of Le Havre on the Normandy coast.1 A list of the pages featuring these sites is included in the sketchbook introduction for comparison.

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, ‘Bayeux; ?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-bayeux-le-havre-normandy-r1185356, accessed 19 April 2024.