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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Cotentin, Normandy; Executors' Notes 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cotentin, Normandy; Executors' Notes’ 1826 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
Cotentin, Normandy; Executors’ Notes 1826
D41071
Pencil on white laid paper, 91 x 131 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Cherbourg Dimanche’ right, descending vertically
Inscribed with Executors’ notes (see main entry)
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest stamp, centre, descending vertically
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCL’ bottom right, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCL’ top right, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned horizontally, Turner filled the upper half of this page with a study of the coastal terrain and architecture which he encountered as he travelled around the Cotentin Peninsula of Normandy. See the sketchbook introduction for the major sites of the region recorded in this volume. Diagrammatic form, perhaps depicting a plan, is featured in the lower half of the page.
Turner’ executors subsequently inscribed the page with their endorsements. All these run vertically down the right-hand side of the page. Henry Scott Trimmer signed his name in ink and left the note ‘no 240 | Containing 62 Leaves | Pencil sketches almost | all on both sides -’. Charles Turner signed his name in ink; Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight left their initialled in pencil.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Cotentin, Normandy; Executors’ Notes 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-normandy-executors-notes-r1185175, accessed 21 November 2024.