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 Defensive Walls; Church Interior, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Defensive Walls; Church Interior, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
Defensive Walls; Church Interior, Normandy 1826
D23351
Turner Bequest CCL 8a
Pencil on white laid paper, 91 x 131 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled this page with studies of defensive walls and a large church interior with figures. Turner recorded several ancient towns and cities with such features on the pages of this volume, a list of which is included in the sketchbook introduction for comparison.

John Chu
May 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Defensive Walls; Church Interior, 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-walls-church-interior-normandy-r1185191, accessed 21 November 2024.