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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Banks of the River Seine near Duclair ?1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Banks of the River Seine near Duclair’ ?1829
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 66 Recto:
The Banks of the River Seine near Duclair ?1829
D23828
Turner Bequest CCLIII 66
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 107 x 156 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘66’ bottom left descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLIII – 66’ bottom left descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains a sketch, drawn horizontally, of hilly riverbanks. Finberg called it simply ‘River banks’,1 but the location was later further specified as a view of the River Seine between Le Havre and Rouen.2 However, the surrounding sketches are of Duclair, indicating that this view is also near the town.
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.5.
Technical notes:
There is slight brownish discolouration on this page, the edge of the staining apparent on the upper left, 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 near Duclair ?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-near-duclair-r1195734, accessed 19 September 2024.