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 Bayeux, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Bayeux, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
Bayeux, Normandy 1826
D23523
Turner Bequest CCLI 34
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘a fellow by h[...]y as C[...] can | [...] of milk on an A[...] | 2[...]’ top, ‘Take all you Like | Home with You | all Normandy’ bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘34’ top left ascending vertically, ‘199’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLI 34’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with a study of Bayeux and its surroundings, recognisable by the cathedral’s twin steeples. This medieval city features on multiple pages in this volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook introduction. In the bottom right-hand corner of the page is noted the phrase ‘Take all you Like | Home with You | all Normandy’. Tate curator Ian Warrell interpreted this as the remark of a passing onlooker.1

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.30, 31.

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-r1185366, accessed 26 April 2024.