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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Views of Dieppe and Abbeville 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Views of Dieppe and Abbeville’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 197 Recto:
Distant Views of Dieppe and Abbeville 1824
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Turner Bequest CCXVI 190
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘D and A’ top left
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘190’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–190’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
On this leaf Turner has drawn various prospects of what appear to be Dieppe and Abbeville in northern France. The artist moved between the two from 10 to 13 September 1824. Turner has inscribed ‘D and A’ above the landscapes, presumably to denote the towns’ names.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant Views of Dieppe and Abbeville 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-distant-views-of-dieppe-and-abbeville-r1174726, accessed 25 April 2024.