J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Channel Harbour with a Lighthouse, Possibly Le Tréport; Women Walking 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Channel Harbour with a Lighthouse, Possibly Le Tréport; Women Walking’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Recto:
A Channel Harbour with a Lighthouse, Possibly Le Tréport; Women Walking 1845
D35585
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 56
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘56’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 56’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the bottom is a continuation of the harbour view on folio 55 verso opposite (D35584), which may show Le Tréport, of which there is an identified view on folio 55 recto (D35583).
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation and overlapping with the view is a study of two women in bonnets, walking or standing, as well as one or two slighter figures; they were perhaps observed in the vicinity.
Technical notes:
There is some brown staining at the gutter, possibly indicating water damage in the 1928 Tate flood.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Channel Harbour with a Lighthouse, Possibly Le Tréport; Women Walking 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-channel-harbour-with-a-lighthouse-possibly-le-treport-r1184004, accessed 09 August 2025.