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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Market Place, Abbeville 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Market Place, Abbeville’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 199 Verso:
The Market Place, Abbeville 1824
D19935
Turner Bequest CCXVI 192 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?St George]’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This full-page sketch depicts the market place at Abbeville in Picardy, northern France. Turner visited Abbeville on 10 and 13 September 1824. At right, rising above the gabled rooftops, is the profile of St Vulfran’s Collegiate Church. Finberg and Andrew Wilton write that this sketch is related to Turner’s illustration of Abbeville for Scott’s Prose Works, published between 1834 and 1836 (see Tate impression T04763).1 That design was used as the title-vignette to volume twenty-eight (‘Tales of a Grandfather’) of the publication.
At bottom right Turner has inscribed a note which appears to read ‘St George’.
For other drawings of Abbeville, including Turner’s studies of the St Vulfran’s Church in this sketchbook, see Tate D18582, D19929–D19933, D19937, D19943, D19945–D19948, D20116–D20117; Turner Bequest CCXI 37a, CCXVI 189a–191a, 193a, 196a, 197a–199, CCXVII 22–23.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

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Finberg 1909, vol.II, p.677 and Wilton, 1979, p.434 no.113.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘The Market Place, 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-the-market-place-abbeville-r1174731, accessed 25 April 2024.