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 Town Buildings, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Town Buildings, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 11 Verso:
Town Buildings, Normandy 1826
D23355
Turner Bequest CCL 11a
Pencil on white laid paper, 91 x 131 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[...] B[...]d | ?from Paris’ towards bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled much of this page with studies of town buildings. These may have been taken at Granville, Coutances 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, ‘Town 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-town-buildings-normandy-r1185195, accessed 21 November 2024.