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 Coutances, Normandy 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coutances, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Coutances, Normandy 1826
D34414
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 59
Pencil on paper, 230 x 363 mm
Watermark ‘IVY MILL | 1816’
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram centre bottom
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV 59’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of several views of the medieval Normandy town of Coutances which Turner worked onto a batch of white ‘Ivy Mill’ watermarked paper on his 1826 tour of Northern France.1 A list of these is provided in the Introduction to this section.
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.23.
Technical Notes:
This sketch occupies one quarter of a single sheet, folded in half lengthways and horizontally. The works on the other quadrants of the sheet are D34415 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 60), D34416 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 61) and D34417 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 62).
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John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Coutances, 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-coutances-normandy-r1185600, accessed 25 April 2024.