Joseph Mallord William Turner

Dieppe Harbour

1824

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Rivers Meuse and Moselle Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 78 x 118 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D20004
Turner Bequest CCXVI 231

Catalogue entry

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

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