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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Lieutenancy Building at Honfleur ?1829

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Verso:
The Lieutenancy Building at Honfleur ?1829
D23729
Turner Bequest CCLIII 16a
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 107 x 156 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains a sketch, drawn horizontally, of a building. Finberg noted it simply as ‘Gothic house’,1 but the location has been identified as Honfleur.2 (For further information on Honfleur, see under folio 1 recto, D23699.) The building’s distinctive turreted shape renders it further identifiable as the Lieutenancy building (for further information see under folio 14 verso; D23725).
Art historian Ian Warrell notes3 that this sketch (possibly also with reference to folio 18 recto; D23732) was used as the preliminary source for Turner’s later watercolour, The Lieutenancy Building and Church of Sainte-Catherine at Honfleur, Normandy, c.1832 (Tate D24749; Turner Bequest CCLIX 184).
1
Finberg 1909, II, p.768.
2
Warrell 1999, pp.110, 259 note 34, p.269 no.70; ?Ian Warrell, ‘Turner on the Seine: Topographical Index’, c.1999, Prints and Drawings Room, Tate Britain (printout in copy of Warrell 1999), p.3.
3
Warrell 1999, pp.110, 259 note 34, p.269 no.70.
Technical notes:
Some blue discolouration appears on the left of the page.

Caroline South
May 2017

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘The Lieutenancy Building at Honfleur ?1829 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-lieutenancy-building-at-honfleur-r1195635, accessed 28 March 2024.