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 Cliffs on the French Channel Coast around Boulogne and Wimereux 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Cliffs on the French Channel Coast around Boulogne and Wimereux’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 84 Recto:
Cliffs on the French Channel Coast around Boulogne and Wimereux 1845
D35636
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 84
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Bol’ towards top left and ‘Vim’ right of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘84’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXI – 84’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Among similar but unidentified views of Channel coastlines on adjacent pages (see the listing at the end of this sketchbook’s Introduction), these are annotated with ‘Bol’ and ‘Vim’, presumably for Boulogne and neighbouring Wimereux, south-west of Calais. For other likely Boulogne views, see under folio 1 recto (D35487).
Turner’s sketchbooks from his penultimate French tour, earlier in 1845, are known as Ambleteuse and Wimereux and Boulogne (Tate; Turner Bequest CCCLVII, CCCLVIII); see John Chu’s Introduction to the ‘Spring Tour of Northern France 1845’ section for the artist’s earlier visits to the area.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Cliffs on the French Channel Coast around Boulogne and Wimereux 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-cliffs-on-the-french-channel-coast-around-boulogne-and-r1184052, accessed 25 April 2024.