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

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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 Cotentin Peninsula; Womens' Heads, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cotentin Peninsula; Womens' Heads, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Verso:
Cotentin Peninsula; Womens’ Heads, Normandy 1826
D23456
Turner Bequest CCL 62a
Pencil on white laid paper, 91 x 131 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blue’ towards bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with loose studies of the coastal terrain buildings which he encountered as he travelled around the Cotentin Peninsula of Normandy. Running vertically up the right-hand side of the page are sketched women’s heads dressed in the towering local style.
Technical Notes:
There are small brown marks across the page.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Cotentin Peninsula; Womens’ Heads, Normandy 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-cotentin-peninsula-womens-heads-normandy-r1185297, accessed 27 November 2024.