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 Granville, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Granville, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Granville, Normandy 1826
D23346
Turner Bequest CCL 6
Pencil on white laid paper, 131 x 91 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Jersey’ right centre, ascending vertically
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘6’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCL – 6’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The study at the top of this page, inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, depicts the cliff-top town of Granville on the west coast of the Cotentin Peninsular in Normandy. On the right-hand side of the page, ascending vertically is a distant view of the Island of Jersey as seen from the Normandy coast. Granville features on multiple pages in this volume, a list of which is provided in the sketchbook introduction. These were subsequently used as the basis for colour studies as Turner worked towards an engraved series of Channel Coast views: see Tate D25212 (Turner Bequest CCLXIII 90), D25356 (Turner Bequest CCLXIII 234), D25357 (Turner Bequest CCLXIII 253), D25387 (Turner Bequest CCLXIII 264).1

John Chu
May 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, pp.158–71.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Granville, 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-granville-normandy-r1185186, accessed 21 November 2024.