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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Le Havre from Sainte-Adresse ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Le Havre from Sainte-Adresse’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 45 Recto:
Le Havre from Sainte-Adresse ?1832
D23603
Turner Bequest CCLII 45
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Partial watermark ‘J. JELL | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘45’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLII – 45’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, this sketch records the south-easterly view from the suburb of Sainte-Adresse looking out towards Le Havre and the Seine estuary. A nearby view is sketched onto folio 41 recto (D23597; Turner Bequest CCLII 41). For examples of the watercolours of Le Havre from Sainte-Adresse that Turner worked up with a view to engraved reproduction around this time, see Tate D24652 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 87) and D24653 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 88).

John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Le Havre from Sainte-Adresse ?1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-havre-from-sainte-adresse-r1175095, accessed 25 April 2024.