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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Three Sketches, ?France, Including a Castle and a Headland 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Three Sketches, ?France, Including a Castle and a Headland’ 1820
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 102 Verso:
Three Sketches, ?France, Including a Castle and a Headland 1820
D16881
Turner Bequest CXCIII 101 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 94 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains three landscape sketches which despite being currently unidentified, almost certainly relate to Turner’s return journey from Italy through France in January 1820. The draughtsmanship is very rough suggesting that they were executed swiftly whilst on the move. The central study depicts a castle, whilst the upper drawing represents part of a headland within a bay. The composition continues on the opposite sheet of the double-page spread, see folio 103 (D16882; Turner Bequest CXCIII 102).

Nicola Moorby
March 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Three Sketches, ?France, Including a Castle and a Headland 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-three-sketches-france-including-a-castle-and-a-headland-r1138656, accessed 12 January 2025.