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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant Views of Dieppe 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant Views of Dieppe’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 243 Recto:
Distant Views of Dieppe 1824
D20014
Turner Bequest CCXVI 236
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘2’ bottom left
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘236’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–236’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough sketches depict the port city of Dieppe on the Channel coast, taken from various perspectives in the surrounding hillside. At centre, towards top left, Turner records the medieval Château de Dieppe For other views of the city in this sketchbook see Tate D19959, D19966, D19968–D19996, D19998–D200013, D20031–D20033; Turner Bequest CCXVI 205, 209a, 211–227, 228–235a, 244a–245a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Distant Views of Dieppe 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-distant-views-of-dieppe-r1174809, accessed 25 April 2024.