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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dieppe Harbour from Le Pollet 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dieppe Harbour from Le Pollet’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 241 Verso:
Dieppe Harbour from Le Pollet 1824
D20011
Turner Bequest CCXVI 234 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This finely wrought and detailed prospect of Dieppe was taken from a vantage point high in the surrounding cliffs at Le Pollet.1 A similar perspective is shown in Tate D20207, D35850; Turner Bequest CCXX A, CCCLXIV 13. The Church of Saint-Jacques can be seen at left and the Château de Dieppe in the distance at right. For other views of Dieppe in this sketchbook see Tate D19959, D19966, D19968–D19996, D19998–D200010, D20012–D20014, D20031–D20033; Turner Bequest CCXVI 205, 209a, 211–227, 228–234, 235–236, 244a–245a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

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Warrell 2014, p.133.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dieppe Harbour from Le Pollet 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-from-le-pollet-r1174806, accessed 20 April 2024.