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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Cherbourg, Coutances and Mont St Michel ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Cathedral, Coutances 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cathedral, Coutances’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 12 Recto:
Cathedral, Coutances 1826
D23356
Turner Bequest CCL 12
Pencil on white laid paper, 131 x 91 mm
Partial watermark
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘12’top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCL – 12’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, the drawings on this page depict the gothic cathedral of Coutance in Normandy from the west. Multiple pages in this volume feature sketches of this settlement and its monuments, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Cathedral, Coutances 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, 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-cathedral-coutances-r1185196, accessed 20 May 2024.