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
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Shipping at Dieppe Harbour 1824
D19999
Turner Bequest CCXVI 228 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with agile and fluid line, this sketch records an array of vessels at Dieppe harbour. Some of the boats’ sails flap and billow in the coastal winds. What appears to be the profile of the Château de Dieppe can be seen in the distance.
For other views of Dieppe in this sketchbook see Tate D19959, D19966, D19968–D19996, D19998, D20000–D20014, D20031–D20033; Turner Bequest CCXVI 205, 209a, 211–227, 228, 229–236, 244a–245a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

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-r1174794, accessed 26 April 2024.