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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Village; Views of Dunkirk 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Village; Views of Dunkirk’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 203 Recto:
A Village; Views of Dunkirk 1824
D19942
Turner Bequest CCXVI 196
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 78 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Dunkirk’ left centre
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘196’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–196’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook turned upside down, these sketches show: a village scene, continued from the folio opposite (Tate D19941; Turner Bequest CCXVI 195a), and two views of the northern French city of Dunkirk. For other drawings of Dunkirk see Tate D19911, D19915–D19919; Turner Bequest CCXVI 180, 182–184a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘A Village; Views of Dunkirk 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-a-village-views-of-dunkirk-r1174738, accessed 25 April 2024.