Turner sketch goes into Glos auction
An original sketch by JMW Turner is expected to achieve £15,000-20,000 at Moore Allen & Innocent’s selected antiques sale in Cirencester on November 24.
The Castle at Tancarville, Normandy is one of five known gouache and watercolour sketches made by Turner of the landscape in 1832 – others forming part of the 1856 Turner Bequest in Tate Britain. Worked on a sheet of 6½ x 5½in (17 x 14cm) blue paper (now trimmed), it depicts the ruined castle on its rocky platform overlooking the Seine with a crowd to the foreground.