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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner River Seine from a High Vantage ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘River Seine from a High Vantage’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Recto:
River Seine from a High Vantage ?1832
D23546
Turner Bequest CCLII 15
Pencil on white wove paper, 187 x 114 mm
Partial watermark ‘YMAN | 28’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘15’ top right running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLII – 15’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned vertically, Turner worked multiple small views of the Seine seen from a high vantage onto this page. In each drawing, the wide meandering of the river is clearly depicted, although the scratchy passages indicative of buildings in the middle distance are too cursory to suggest a definite location.

John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘River Seine from a High Vantage ?1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 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-river-seine-from-a-high-vantage-r1175038, accessed 25 April 2024.