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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Houses on a Quayside, Le Havre ?1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Houses on a Quayside, Le Havre’ ?1829
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
Houses on a Quayside, Le Havre ?1829
D23743
Turner Bequest CCLIII 23a
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 quayside view. Finberg noted the sketch as ‘Houses beside river’,1 but the location has been identified as Le Havre.2 Houses on the left follow the edge of the water, the sails and masts of boats on the water are indicated at centre of the sketch, and further parts of the town are seen stretching off to the distance at right. Turner picks out details of the building on the left such as buttresses (towards bottom right) supporting the upper storey of a house and an archway in a wall at left.

Caroline South
May 2017

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.

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘Houses on a Quayside, Le Havre ?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-houses-on-a-quayside-le-havre-r1195649, accessed 20 September 2024.