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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Eu and Treport Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner St-Jacques du Tréport from the Harbour 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘St-Jacques du Tréport from the Harbour’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
St-Jacques du Tréport from the Harbour 1845
D35452
Turner Bequest CCCLIX 17
Pencil, watercolour and pen on white wove paper, 230 x 328 mm
Stamped in black ink ‘CCCLIX–17’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Robert Upstone identifies this sketch as a view from the harbour at Le Tréport towards the Church of St-Jacques.1 The structure is silhouetted in grey against a light-blue sky and contrasts with the dazzling white of the chalk cliffs which has been created with an area of ‘reserved’ blank paper.2
1
Upstone 1993, p.57.
2
For a contemporary description of St-Jacques du Tréport, see Jean Benoi^t De´sire´ Cochet, Les Églises de l’Arrondissement de Dieppe, Dieppe 1846, pp.182–191.
Technical notes:
The slightly shaved-off ‘CCCLIX–17’ stamped in black ink at the bottom right of the sketch suggests that the sheet has been trimmed.
Verso:
Blank; except for patches of watercolour and various endorsement marks. Towards the bottom centre ‘ccclix. 17’ and a semi-inverted ‘67’ have been inscribed in pencil. The Turner Bequest monogram has been stamped in black ink above ‘CCCLIX – 17’ to the bottom left of the sheet.

John Chu
February 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘St-Jacques du Tréport from the Harbour 1845 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2014, 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-st-jacques-du-treport-from-the-harbour-r1173548, accessed 22 November 2024.