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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views on the River Seine at Rouen ?1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views on the River Seine at Rouen’ ?1829
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Recto:
Views on the River Seine at Rouen ?1829
D23848
Turner Bequest CCLIII 76
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 107 x 156 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘76’ top right ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCLIII – 76’ top right ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains two sketches, both drawn horizontally, of riverbank scenes. Finberg noted this page as ‘View on river’,1 but the location has been further specified as Rouen,2 on the River Seine. The upper sketch shows a stretch of river with high riverbanks. The structures on the right are likely to be windmills. The lower sketch is more detailed and depicts figures, boats and buildings on the river’s edge. The hill depicted on the left of both sketches would correspond with Rouen’s Mont Sainte-Catherine.

Caroline South
May 2017

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.

How to cite

Caroline South, ‘Views on the River Seine at Rouen ?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-views-on-the-river-seine-at-rouen-r1195754, accessed 26 April 2024.