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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Dieppe Harbour, from the Quai Henri IV 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dieppe Harbour, from the Quai Henri IV’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Dieppe Harbour, from the Quai Henri IV 1824
D20003
Turner Bequest CCXVI 230 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This slight and swiftly executed sketch is of Dieppe Harbour, taken by Turner from a point on the Quai Henri IV. The sun sits low in the sky at right, casting reflections on the waters below.
The bridge shown here is depicted again on in Tate D19987, D20209, D20031, D24524; Turner Bequest CCXVI 222a, 244a, CCXX C, CCLVIII 13 and in the oil painting Dieppe: The Port from the Quai Henry IV of around 1827–8 (Tate N03385).

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Dieppe Harbour, from the Quai Henri IV 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-dieppe-harbour-from-the-quai-henri-iv-r1174798, accessed 23 April 2024.