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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Rhine, Strassburg and Oxford Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The River Seine 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The River Seine’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
The River Seine 1802
D04758
Turner Bequest LXXVII 21
Pencil on white wove paper, 154 x 240 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘On Seine’
Stamped in black ‘LXXVII – 21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner’s notation is too general and the sketch too slight to permit an exact identification of the subject.
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David Blayney Brown
March 2004

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The River Seine 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2004, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-river-seine-r1133461, accessed 22 November 2024.