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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy c.1827-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy’ c.1827-8
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy c.1827–8
D25379
Turner Bequest CCLXIII 256
Watercolour on white wove paper, 178 x 258 mm
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘256’ bottom right
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCLXIII – 256’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a batch of colour sketches of the island of Mont Saint-Michel off the coast of Normandy which Turner worked up from material gathered on his 1826 tour of Northern France. A list of the pencil studies of that landmark is provided in the Introduction to the Cherbourg, Coutances and Mont St Michel sketchbook.1
The verso, a colour study of a sweeping beach before a large rock is depicted in yellow, grey and blue watercolour (D40144).

John Chu
March 2016

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.161.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy c.1827–8 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2016, 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-r1185595, accessed 27 April 2024.