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 > Rouen, Le Havre, Caen, Bayeux and Isigny ... > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rouen, Normandy 1826

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rouen, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Verso:
Rouen, Normandy 1826
D23466
Turner Bequest CCLI 5a
Pencil on white wove paper, 83 x 122 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Cart ?horses’, ‘Casks’ towards top right, ‘?Gamers a Cask’ towards bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled the upper half of this this page with a study of buildings in Rouen beside a long arched bridge. In the lower half of the page is a pair of large engineered structures: perhaps the hulks of upturned barges or the piers of a bridge under construction. Rouen was prominent for both its shipping and crossings and is featured multiple times in the pages of this volume. A list of these studies of the city is provided in the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
July 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Rouen, Normandy 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 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-rouen-normandy-r1185309, accessed 25 November 2024.