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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Bend of the River Seine, perhaps from Canteleu near Rouen 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Bend of the River Seine, perhaps from Canteleu near Rouen’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
A Bend of the River Seine, perhaps from Canteleu near Rouen 1821
D24534
Turner Bequest CCLVIII 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 123 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCLVIII – 18’ top left inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ian Warrell has suggested that this landscape with a bend in the River Seine may have been made from Canteleu just west of Rouen.1

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

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Ian Warrell, Turner Catalogue Files, Tate, CCLVIII 18.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘A Bend of the River Seine, perhaps from Canteleu near Rouen 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-bend-of-the-river-seine-perhaps-from-canteleu-near-rouen-r1146321, accessed 19 April 2024.