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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Château de Dieppe from the Beach, with the Town Beyond 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Château de Dieppe from the Beach, with the Town Beyond’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Recto:
The Château de Dieppe from the Beach, with the Town Beyond 1845
D35545
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 33
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Sea’ bottom left
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘33’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 33’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This drawing focuses on the turreted north-western end of the Château de Dieppe, high on cliffs overlooking the beach. Turner’s viewpoint is at the water’s edge, near where the rue Alexandre Dumas now runs; modern apartments at the foot of the slope do not obscure the main features recorded here. Compare the watercolour in the contemporary Dieppe sketchbook (Tate D35467; Turner Bequest CCCLX 9). The artist had first recorded the view in his 1821 Dieppe, Rouen and Paris book (Tate D24506; Turner Bequest CCLVIII 4), when he also note the ‘Sea’ in the foreground.
To the left and continuing a little onto folio 32 verso opposite (D35544), the town of Dieppe is seen to the north-west, with the dome and tower of the church of Saint-Rémy towards the gutter on the present page. For other views of Dieppe see under folio 31 recto (D35541).
Technical notes:
There is some brown staining at the gutter, possibly indicating water damage in the 1928 Tate flood.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Château de Dieppe from the Beach, with the Town Beyond 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-chateau-de-dieppe-from-the-beach-with-the-town-beyond-r1183967, accessed 22 September 2024.