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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Bayeux, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Bayeux, Normandy 1826
D23514
Turner Bequest CCLI 29a
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘n[...] Bourse de Commerce’, ‘2’, 4’ top centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this this page with a study of the marketplace of Bayeux in Normandy with one of spires of the cathedral rising up beyond. This medieval city features on multiple pages in this volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Bayeux, 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-normandy-r1185357, accessed 28 March 2024.