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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Le Tréport 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Le Tréport’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Le Tréport 1824
D19953
Turner Bequest CCXVI 201 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Trepors’ top centre; ‘Corn’ centre left towards bottom
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a prospect of Le Tréport, a town situated on the Haute-Normandie coast of northern France. This small fishing port lies at the point where the Bresle River meets the English Channel, and is surrounded by precipitous chalk cliffs.
For later watercolours of Le Tréport, produced in c.1841 and 1845, see Tate D33537, D35440, D35447, D35880; Turner Bequest CCCXXXIV 13, CCCLIX 5, 12, CCCLXIV 41.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Le Tréport 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-le-treport-r1174748, accessed 18 April 2024.