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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Views of Calais 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Views of Calais’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 195 Verso:
Distant Views of Calais 1824
D19927
Turner Bequest CCXVI 188 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These previously unidentified jottings depict Calais, with the outskirts of the harbour in the foreground and the distant profiles of the Tour du Guet and Hotel de Ville beyond.
For other sketches of Calais’s landmarks see Tate D04269, D24857–D24858, D24906, D24949, D24968–D24969; Turner Bequest LXXI 67, CCLX 21–22, 70, 113, 132–133. See also Tate Impression T04761 and David Cox’s watercolour of the city dated between 1829 and 1832 (N04301). For other sketches of the city in this book see Tate D20083, D19922–D19926; Turner Bequest CCXVI 272, 186–188.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant Views of Calais 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 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-distant-views-of-calais-r1174723, accessed 19 September 2024.