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 > Loose Studies of Northern France > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Granville, Normandy 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Granville, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Granville, Normandy 1826
D34411
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 230 x 182 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘56’ bottom right
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV 56’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner worked this view of the Normandy coastal town of Granville onto a batch of white Whatman paper which he took with him on his 1826 tour of Northern France.1 See the Introduction to this section for a list of other sketches of Granville on loose sheets from that journey. These may have been worked up in connection with one of several abortive attempts to put the material gathered on the 1826 tour of Northern France to use, most likely the failed The English Channel or La Manche print series.2
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.23, 155.
2
Ibid. pp.165–71.
Technical Notes:
The sketch is drawn on a sheet of paper folded in two. It is attached by its upper edge to D34412
(Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 57).
Verso:
Blank

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Granville, Normandy 1826 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-granville-normandy-r1185598, accessed 19 September 2024.