Joseph Mallord William Turner

Rouen in the Distance, with the River Seine

?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: D23846
Turner Bequest CCLIII 75

Catalogue entry

The page contains a sketch, drawn horizontally, looking across the bank of a river to boats on the water, hills beyond and buildings to the right. Finberg identified it as ‘Rouen in distance’,1 and the subject has been confirmed.2 The sketch is rough, yet Turner conveys a sense of space and distance, particularly towards the hills on the opposite bank of the River Seine and to the right.

Caroline South
May 2017

1

Finberg 1909, II, p.771.

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.5.

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