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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Spring Tour of Northern France 1845 > Boulogne Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Boulogne from the North-East, with a Windmill 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boulogne from the North-East, with a Windmill’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
Boulogne from the North-East, with a Windmill 1845
D35429
Turner Bequest CCCLVIII 21
Gouache, pencil and watercolour on white wove paper, 230 x 326 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘21’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLVIII 21’ bottom right (see Technical notes)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page is largely blank but for small intersecting pencil lines at the centre left, that continue the sketched skyline of Boulogne on folio 19 verso opposite (D35427; Turner Bequest CCCLVIII 20).
Technical notes:
Some patches of blue and ochre watercolour have transferred from folio 19 verso (D35427; Turner Bequest CCCLVIII 20).
The Turner Bequest number ‘CCCLVIII 21’ stamped at the bottom right of this recto is cited in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory for the drawing on the verso (D35430; now pseudo-Turner Bequest CCCLVIII 21v), under which this anomaly is discussed.

John Chu
November 2013

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Boulogne from the North-East, with a Windmill 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-boulogne-from-the-north-east-with-a-windmill-r1173526, accessed 17 July 2024.