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 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Recto:
Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy 1826
D24106
Turner Bequest CCLV 17
Pencil on white wove paper, 110 x 182 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCLV 17’ bottom right
Inscribed in brown ink ‘57.A.5’ bottom left
Blind stamped with Turner Bequest monogram centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled the centre of this page with a depiction of Mont Saint-Michel, situated off the coast of Normandy. The folio may not always have been attached to this sketchbook (see Technical Notes) and is the only depiction of this island fortress in its pages which is otherwise mainly devoted to the city of Rouen.
Technical Notes:
This page was not counted as part of this sketchbook at the time of the scheduling process. However, in his 1909 Inventory of the Turner Bequest, A. J. Finberg numbered the page within the sequence of the rest of the volume.1 Rather than being bound into the sketchbook, the sheet was attached to folio 16 verso near the gutter. The numbered inscriptions on both sides of the page indicate that it was associated with the sketchbook before it was attached to it.
1
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.776.
Verso:
Pencil notes reading ‘St M [...] Brittany’, ‘CCLV . 17’ twice. Red ink note reading ‘57.A.5’. Vestiges of light-blue paper in each corner of the page.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Mont Saint-Michel, 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-mont-saint-michel-normandy-r1185398, accessed 26 April 2024.