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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Le Havre in Mid-Distance ?1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Le Havre in Mid-Distance’ ?1829
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Verso:
Le Havre in Mid-Distance ?1829
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Turner Bequest CCLIII 18a
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 107 x 156 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains a sketch, drawn horizontally, of a coastal town, with the sea stretching off to the distance and at left. Finberg noted it simply as ‘Town in mid-distance’,1 but the location has been identified as Le Havre.2 Turner captures the shape of the town’s outline, including a tower at centre, in a few simple lines.
1
Finberg 1909, II, p.769.
2
?Ian Warrell, ‘Turner on the Seine: Topographical Index’, c.1999, Prints and Drawings Room, Tate Britain (printout in copy of Ian Warrell, Turner on the Seine, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1999), p.3.
Technical notes:
A small rust-coloured stain appears at upper left of the sketch.

Caroline South
May 2017

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘Le Havre in Mid-Distance ?1829 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-le-havre-in-mid-distance-r1195639, accessed 20 September 2024.