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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dieppe Harbour 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dieppe Harbour’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 238 Recto:
Dieppe Harbour 1824
D20004
Turner Bequest CCXVI 231
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘231’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–231’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of Dieppe Harbour, with boats moored in the foreground surrounded by quayside buildings. At the uppermost register there is a separate sketch of the profile of the Eglise Saint-Jacques with buildings at either side. For other views of Dieppe in this sketchbook see Tate D19959, D19966, D19968–D19996, D19998–D20003, D20005–D20014, D20031–D20033; Turner Bequest CCXVI 205, 209a, 211–227, 228–230a, 231a–236, 244a–245a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dieppe Harbour 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-dieppe-harbour-r1174799, accessed 19 April 2024.