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 53 Verso:
Tancarville Castle ?1829
D23803
Turner Bequest CCLIII 53a
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 156 x 107 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains a rough sketch of castle buildings. Finberg identified this as ‘Tancarville Castle’,1 and the location has been confirmed.2 The pointed roofs and arched gateway of the structure on the left correspond to those of the Châtelet d’Entrée, the castle’s entrance towards the town. (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-r1195709, accessed 19 September 2024.