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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Normandy ?1829 > Tancarville and Lillebonne Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Scenes around Le Havre ?1829

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scenes around Le Havre’ ?1829
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 94 Verso:
Scenes around Le Havre ?1829
D23885
Turner Bequest CCLIII 94a
Pencil on pale cream laid paper, 156 x 107 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The page contains three separate sketches, drawn with the page turned upside down, which appear to depict landscapes. Finberg noted the page simply as ‘Scene on river banks, &c.’.1 The sketches seem to be continuations of those inside the back cover opposite (D41081), whose location has been suggested as Le Havre,2 which would indicate that these continuations of the sketches are therefore also of Le Havre.

Caroline South
May 2017

1
Finberg 1909, II, p.771.
2
Warrell, Seine, 1999, pp.210, 262 note 178; ?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, ‘Scenes around 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-scenes-around-le-havre-r1195791, accessed 27 April 2024.