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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Porte d'Ingouville at Le Havre, Normandy ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Porte d'Ingouville at Le Havre, Normandy’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Recto:
The Porte d’Ingouville at Le Havre, Normandy ?1832
D23613
Turner Bequest CCLII 50
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Café’ left centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘50’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLII – 50’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, this drawing depicts an apparently continuous view of the open space around the Porte d’Ingouville at Le Havre, which was one of the main points of ingress to the harbour town. While the large gate flanked by its Doric colonnades dominates the centre of the scene, a shop sign reading ‘Cafe’ dangles from a nearby building on the right-hand edge of the page.

John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘The Porte d’Ingouville at Le Havre, Normandy ?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-the-porte-dingouville-at-le-havre-normandy-r1175105, accessed 25 April 2024.