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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tancarville Castle ?1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tancarville Castle’ ?1829
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
Tancarville Castle ?1829
D23792
Turner Bequest CCLIII 48
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 107 x 156 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘48’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLIII – 48’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains a rough sketch, drawn horizontally, of a castle high on a rocky hilltop at right looking over trees and buildings on lower ground on the left. Finberg identified this sketch as ‘Tancarville Castle’,1 and this location has been confirmed.2 Turner concentrates on the shapes of the castle buildings, and only roughly indicates the trees and other buildings below, and by the lightest horizontal lines the sea in the distance beyond. (For further information on the castle, see under folio 46 recto; D23788.)

Caroline South
May 2017

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.770.
2
?Ian Warrell, ‘Turner on the Seine: Topographical Index’, c.1999, Prints and Drawings Room, Tate Britain (printout in copy of Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999), p.5.

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘Tancarville Castle ?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-tancarville-castle-r1195698, accessed 24 April 2024.