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 > Morlaise to Nantes Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Coastal Terrain, Brittany 1826

Image 1 of 2
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Coastal Terrain, Brittany’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Coastal Terrain, Brittany 1826
D23021
Turner Bequest CCXLVII 6
Pencil on white laid paper, 105 x 167 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLVII – 6’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled this page with multiple studies of the coastal terrain of Brittany. Amongst the subjects depicted, Tate curator Ian Warrell has identified islands in the Bay of Morlais and the Phare de la Lande close to the settlement of Carantec.1
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p. 231.
Technical Notes:
Small brown marks at the centre of the page.
Verso:
Blank

John Chu
September 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Coastal Terrain, Brittany 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 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-coastal-terrain-brittany-r1184849, accessed 23 December 2024.