Joseph Mallord William Turner

Shipping at Dieppe

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 × 118 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D20001
Turner Bequest CCXVI 229 a

Catalogue entry

This slight and swiftly rendered sketch depicts fishing boats navigating the waters around Dieppe harbour. For other views of Dieppe in this sketchbook see Tate D19959, D19966, D19968–D19996, D19998–D20000, D20002–D20014, D20031–D20033; Turner Bequest CCXVI 205, 209a, 211–227, 228–229, 230–236, 244a–245a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

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