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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings, ?Calais 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings, ?Calais’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
Buildings, ?Calais 1824
D19580
Turner Bequest CCXVI 15
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[...]’ | ‘Grey [...]’ top right (inverted relative to foliation)
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘15’ towards top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–15’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough, cursory sketches are likely to show parts of Calais and its harbour; they have been drawn with the sketchbook turned upside down. The artist arrived at the French port at the very beginning of his tour on 11 August 1824.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buildings, ?Calais 1824 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-buildings-calais-r1174368, accessed 18 April 2024.