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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Street Scene, ?Abbeville 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Street Scene, ?Abbeville’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 204 Recto:
Street Scene, ?Abbeville 1824
D19944
Turner Bequest CCXVI 197
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘197’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–197’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has recorded a street view; the location is most likely Abbeville, given the similarity in handling between the present sketch and Tate D19943; Turner Bequest CCXVI 196a.
For other views of Abbeville see Tate D18582, D19929–D19933, D19937, D19945–D19948, D20116–D20117; Turner Bequest CCXI 37a, CCXVI 189a–191a, 193a, 197a–199, CCXVII 22–23.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Street Scene, ?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-street-scene-abbeville-r1174740, accessed 25 April 2024.