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 Coastal Terrain and Sailboats, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Terrain and Sailboats, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Coastal Terrain and Sailboats, Normandy 1826
D23516
Turner Bequest CCLI 30a
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with a sketch of shipping, buildings and rocky coastal terrain. The seaside of Normandy is the subject of extensive study in this volume so this drawing was probably made in that region.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Coastal Terrain and Sailboats, 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-coastal-terrain-and-sailboats-normandy-r1185359, accessed 23 April 2024.