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 Defensive Buildings, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Defensive Buildings, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Defensive Buildings, Normandy 1826
D23359
Turner Bequest CCL 13a
Pencil on white laid paper, 91 x 131 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with a view of hillside buildings. Large fort-like buildings are included in the upper half of the page. These sketches may have been taken at the defensible towns of Mont Saint-Michel or Cherbourg. These towns feature on multiple pages in this volume, lists of which are provided in the sketchbook introduction for comparison.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Defensive Buildings, 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-defensive-buildings-normandy-r1185199, accessed 21 November 2024.