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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rouen across the River Seine ?1829

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 73 Recto:
Rouen across the River Seine ?1829
D23842
Turner Bequest CCLIII 73
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 107 x 156 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘73’ top right ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLIII – 73’ top right ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains a sketch, drawn horizontally, of a view of the city of Rouen. Finberg identified this sketch as ‘View of Rouen’,1 and the location has been confirmed.2 Turner depicts a view across the River Seine towards buildings in the background, and indicates boats in the foreground.
1
Finberg 1909, II, p.771.
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 lower right, from damage likely caused by the 1928 Tate Gallery flood (see the technical notes to the sketchbook’s Introduction). There is thumbprint or smudge on the lower right edge of the page.

Caroline South
May 2017

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘Rouen across the River Seine ?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-rouen-across-the-river-seine-r1195748, accessed 29 March 2024.