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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Quayside, Le Havre ?1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Quayside, Le Havre’ ?1829
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 25 Recto:
A Quayside, Le Havre ?1829
D23746
Turner Bequest CCLIII 25
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 107 x 156 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘25’ top right ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLIII – 25’ top right ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page contains a simple sketch, drawn horizontally, of boats and buildings on a quayside. Finberg noted it simply as ‘Houses on Quay’,1 but the location has been identified further as Le Havre.2 At centre of the sketch, Turner indicates the studded and rounded wall of the Tower of François I. (For further information on the tower, see under folio 7 verso; D23712.)

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, ‘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-a-quayside-le-havre-r1195652, accessed 20 September 2024.