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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Normandy ?1829 > Tancarville and Lillebonne Sketchbook > Artwork

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 53 Recto:
Tancarville Castle ?1829
D23802
Turner Bequest CCLIII 53
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 156 x 107 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Tankarville’ towards top right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘53’ top left upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCLIII – 53’ top left upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains a rough sketch, drawn with the page turned upside down, of the machicolated Coquesart tower of Tancarville castle. Finberg identified this sketch as ‘Tancarville Castle’,1 and this location has been confirmed.2 Turner’s inscription on the right of the sketch seems to read ‘Tancarville’ but spelt with a ‘k’. (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-r1195708, accessed 23 September 2024.