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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping at Dieppe Harbour 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping at Dieppe Harbour’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 226 Recto:
Shipping at Dieppe Harbour 1824
D19981
Turner Bequest CCXVI 219
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘219’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–219’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner makes a slight sketch of fishing vessels moored at Dieppe Harbour. The tangle of the boats’ masts and rigging are described with swift and overlapping strokes of the pencil. This sketch was preparatory material for the oil painting Harbour of Dieppe (Changement de Domicile), exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1825 (Frick Collection, New York).1 For other views of the city in this sketchbook see Tate D19959, D19966, D19968–D19980, D19982–D20014, D20031–D20033; Turner Bequest CCXVI 205, 209a, 211–218a, 219–236, 244a–245a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.141 no.231.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Shipping at Dieppe Harbour 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-shipping-at-dieppe-harbour-r1174776, accessed 20 April 2024.