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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Eu and Treport Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Church of St-Jacques du Tréport, with Chalk Cliffs 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Church of St-Jacques du Tréport, with Chalk Cliffs’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Church of St-Jacques du Tréport, with Chalk Cliffs 1845
D35438
Turner Bequest CCCLIX 3
Pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 232 x 328 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘3’ bottom right
Stamped in black ink ‘CCCLIX 3’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This delicately tinted watercolour sketch depicts a broadly north-easterly view of Le Tréport in bright sunlight. Central is the Church of St-Jacques sitting on its little hill neighbouring the mouth of the harbour.1 The scene is framed by two sets of high cliffs, whose real distance to the town has been greatly diminished in the composition.
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For a contemporary description of St-Jacques du Tréport, see Jean Benoi^t De´sire´ Cochet, Les Églises de l’Arrondissement de Dieppe, Dieppe 1846, pp.182–191.
Technical notes:
There is very small hole towards the bottom left of the page.
Verso:
Blank; except for small patches of blue watercolour.

John Chu
February 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘The Church of St-Jacques du Tréport, with Chalk Cliffs 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-church-of-st-jacques-du-treport-with-chalk-cliffs-r1173534, accessed 26 April 2024.