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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of the Coast at Villefranche-sur-Mer 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of the Coast at Villefranche-sur-Mer’ 1828
Folio 13 Verso:
Two Views of the Coast at Villefranche-sur-Mer 1828
D21158
Turner Bequest CCXXXI 13a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 174 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page, used horizontally, contains two very rough, schematic sketches which the geographer and Turner researcher Roland Courtot has identified as representing views of the coastline at Villefranche-sur-Mer and Cap Ferrat.1 A similar, but more detailed and legible prospect can be found on folio 14 recto opposite (D21159).

Nicola Moorby
March 2017

Revised by Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
See Roland Courtot, ‘Les Carnets de William Turner: Recherches d’identification et de localisation des dessins’, unpublished research notes, Université de Provence à Aix, April 2008, p.3, as ‘Villefranche-sur-mer’ (shared with former Tate cataloguer Nicola Moorby in email correspondence at that date).

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Views of the Coast at Villefranche-sur-Mer 1828’, catalogue entry, March 2017, revised by Hannah Kaspar, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/two-views-of-the-coast-at-villefranche-sur-mer-r1209836, accessed 15 April 2025.