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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Church of St Jacques, Le Tréport 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Church of St Jacques, Le Tréport’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 75 Recto:
The Church of St Jacques, Le Tréport 1845
D35618
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 75
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘75’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 75’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
As Ian Warrell recognised, Turner shows the medieval Church of St Jacques, high above the harbour at Le Tréport1 (see under folio 55 recto; D35583), looking north-east from the Quai François 1er.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

1
See Warrell 1995, p.35.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Church of St Jacques, Le Tréport 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-church-of-st-jacques-le-treport-r1184034, accessed 27 April 2024.