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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Château de Dieppe 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Château de Dieppe’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 255 Recto:
Château de Dieppe 1824
D20038
Turner Bequest CCXVI 248
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘248’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–248’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This intricately rendered study depicts the imposing Château de Dieppe, built into a cliff overlooking the beach. The castle was constructed in the fourteenth century on foundations dating from the late twelfth century.1 In the distance at left is the profile of the city itself, with the dome of the Eglise Saint-Jacques. Other drawings of Dieppe Castle include: Tate D35465–D35466, D35476–D35477, D35541; Turner Bequest CCCLXI 7–8, 18–19, 31.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

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‘Château de Dieppe, Ministère de Culture, accessed 4 November 2014, http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/merimee_fr?ACTION=RETROUVER&REQ=((PA00100620):REF)

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Château de 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-chateau-de-dieppe-r1174833, accessed 20 April 2024.