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 Buildings in Coastal Terrain, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings in Coastal Terrain, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Recto:
Buildings in Coastal Terrain, Normandy 1826
D23517
Turner Bequest CCLI 31
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘31’ top left, ascending vertically, ‘199’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 31’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with a sketch of buildings in a rocky coastal landscape. 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, ‘Buildings in Coastal Terrain, 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-buildings-in-coastal-terrain-normandy-r1185360, accessed 26 April 2024.