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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Street Scene ?at Abbeville 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Street Scene ?at Abbeville’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 207 Recto:
Street Scene ?at Abbeville 1824
D19950
Turner Bequest CCXVI 200
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘R’ bottom right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘200’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–200’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This roughly rendered sketch depicts a street scene with figures peopling the foreground at right. The location may be Abbeville in northern France.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Street Scene ?at 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-at-abbeville-r1174745, accessed 26 April 2024.