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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Church at Quillebeuf; Studies of a Boat on the River Seine 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Church at Quillebeuf; Studies of a Boat on the River Seine’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Church at Quillebeuf; Studies of a Boat on the River Seine 1821
D24556
Turner Bequest CCLVIII 29a
Pencil on white wove paper, 123 x 118 mm
Inscribed brown ink ‘1316’ bottom right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the head of the page is a sketch of the church at Quillebeuf on the Seine; (see Tate D24669; Turner Bequest CCLIX 103) for a slightly different later view. The sketch at the bottom of the page gives a more distant view of the village on the left bank of the Seine. There are further sketches of Quillebeuf on folios 14 where there is another view of the church and perhaps on 34 verso (Tate D24526, D24565; Turner Bequest CCLIX 14, 34v).
At the centre of the page are two studies of the prow and stern of a small boat. Between these sketches and the distant view of Quillebeuf below is a slight sketch of cliffs on the north bank of the Seine, looking towards Le Havre at the mouth of the river.1

Thomas Ardill
March 2013

1
Ian Warrell, Turner Catalogue Files, Tate, CCLVIII 29a.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Church at Quillebeuf; Studies of a Boat on the River Seine 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-church-at-quillebeuf-studies-of-a-boat-on-the-river-seine-r1146343, accessed 25 April 2024.