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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Calais Harbour 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Calais Harbour’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 275 Verso:
Calais Harbour 1824
D20077
Turner Bequest CCXVI 268 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Cal’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rendered with rough and summary line, here Turner depicts two views of ‘Cal’, Calais Harbour, possibly taken on his final day in France before leaving for England on 15 September.

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Calais 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-calais-harbour-r1174872, accessed 16 April 2024.