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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Rouen Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Dieppe Castle, Normandy 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Dieppe Castle, Normandy’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
Dieppe Castle, Normandy 1826
D24077
Turner Bequest CCLV 1
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 182 mm
Inscribed with executors’ notes (see main entry)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘1’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘CCLV 1’ top left, inverted
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted in relation to the sketchbook as foliated, the faint pencil sketch on this page depicts Dieppe Castle. Turner commenced his 1826 tour of France at Dieppe.1 Along the bottom of the page, inverted in relation to the sketches above, are various notes by Turner’s executors. In ink Henry Scott Trimmer signed and inscribed the page with the note ‘No 202 This book contains 15 [sic] leaves – Pencil | Sketches some on both sides – | [signed] H.S. Trimmer’. Charles Turner signed his name in ink, and Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight

John Chu
July 2015

1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.28.

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Dieppe Castle, Normandy 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-dieppe-castle-normandy-r1185369, accessed 21 November 2024.