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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Banks of the River Seine at Villequier ?1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Banks of the River Seine at Villequier’ ?1829
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 56 Verso:
The Banks of the River Seine at Villequier ?1829
D23809
Turner Bequest CCLIII 56a
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 simple sketch, drawn horizontally, of a coastal view with high ground in mid-distance on the right coming down to the river stretching into the distance on the left. Two boats, whether sailing or steamboats is not clear, are depicted on the water at left. Finberg identified this sketch as ‘Banks of Seine’1 and the location has been further specified as Villequier,2 a town on the river.
1
Finberg 1909, II, p.770.
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.6.
Technical notes:
There is brownish discolouration on this page, the edge of the staining apparent on the right, from damage likely caused by the 1928 Tate Gallery flood (see the technical notes to the sketchbook’s Introduction).

Caroline South
May 2017

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘The Banks of the River Seine at Villequier ?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-the-banks-of-the-river-seine-at-villequier-r1195715, accessed 24 April 2024.