Joseph Mallord William Turner

A Quayside, Le Havre

?1829

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Tancarville and Lillebonne Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 107 × 156 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D23746
Turner Bequest CCLIII 25

Catalogue entry

This page contains a simple sketch, drawn horizontally, of boats and buildings on a quayside. Finberg noted it simply as ‘Houses on Quay’,1 but the location has been identified further as Le Havre.2 At centre of the sketch, Turner indicates the studded and rounded wall of the Tower of François I. (For further information on the tower, see under folio 7 verso; D23712.)

Caroline South
May 2017

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.769.
2
?Ian Warrell, ‘Turner on the Seine: Topographical Index’, c.1999, Prints and Drawings Room, Tate Britain (printout in copy of Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999), p.3.

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