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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Row of Houses at Dieppe 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Row of Houses at Dieppe’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 219 Recto:
Row of Houses at Dieppe 1824
D19969
Turner Bequest CCXVI 212
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Watermark ‘smith & [allnut] | 18[22]’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner left to right ‘Y’, ‘W’, ‘W’, ‘D’, ‘W’, ‘G’, ‘D’, ‘D’, ‘WB’, ‘Y’, ‘R’, ‘R’, ‘Y’
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘212’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–212’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch depicts the houses which line the quayside at Dieppe, a port city on the Normandy coast. Directly beneath the buildings are the initials: ‘Y’, ‘W’, ‘W’, ‘D’, ‘W’, ‘G’, ‘D’, ‘D’, ‘WB’, ‘Y’, ‘R’, ‘R’, ‘Y’, which are likely to be abbreviated colour notes standing for ‘Yellow’ or ‘White’, for example. Turner was at Dieppe on 11 and 12 September 1824, a few days before the end of his tour. For other views of Dieppe in this sketchbook see Tate D19959, D19966, D19968, D19970–D20014, D20031–D20033; Turner Bequest CCXVI 205, 209a, 211, 212a–236, 244a–245a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Row of Houses at Dieppe 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-row-of-houses-at-dieppe-r1174764, accessed 24 April 2024.