Joseph Mallord William Turner

Scenes around 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: 156 × 107 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D23885
Turner Bequest CCLIII 94 a

Catalogue entry

The page contains three separate sketches, drawn with the page turned upside down, which appear to depict landscapes. Finberg noted the page simply as ‘Scene on river banks, &c.’.1 The sketches seem to be continuations of those inside the back cover opposite (D41081), whose location has been suggested as Le Havre,2 which would indicate that these continuations of the sketches are therefore also of Le Havre.

Caroline South
May 2017

Finberg 1909, II, p.771.

Warrell, Seine, 1999, pp.210, 262 note 178; ?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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