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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Outskirts of Abbeville 1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 201 Verso:
Outskirts of Abbeville 1824
D19939
Turner Bequest CCXVI 194 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner records a prospect of the outskirts of Abbeville in Picardy, northern France. The profiles of Saint-Vulfran Church, the Belfry, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre are visible. A carriage and a figure on horseback can be seen in the foreground. See also Tate D19936, D19938, D19940, D20116–D20117; Turner Bequest CCXVI 193, 194, 195, CCXVII 22–23.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Outskirts of 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-outskirts-of-abbeville-r1174735, accessed 29 March 2024.