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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Calais; the Tour de Guet and Hôtel de Ville 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Calais; the Tour de Guet and Hôtel de Ville’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
Calais; the Tour de Guet and Hôtel de Ville 1802
D04269
Turner Bequest LXXI 67
Pencil, with some scratching out, on wove paper prepared with a reddish brown wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 67’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Numbered by Finberg as folio 67 in the book, this has since been bound as folio 6. The Tour de Guet, an ancient watchtower, stands at left, the Hôtel de Ville (destroyed 1944) at right.
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Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘874’ bottom left, and in a later hand in pencil ‘LXXI page 67’ top left

David Blayney Brown
April 2003

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Calais; the Tour de Guet and Hôtel de Ville 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2003, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-calais-the-tour-de-guet-and-hotel-de-ville-r1133752, accessed 25 April 2024.