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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Two Views of Antibes, from the Sea 1828

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Two Views of Antibes, from the Sea’ 1828
Folio 6 Recto:
Two Views of Antibes, from the Sea 1828
D21143
Turner Bequest CCXXXI 6
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 174 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘6’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCXXXI 6’ ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page, used horizontally, contains two sketches of Antibes from the sea. The uppermost vista includes the high ground of the Cap d’Antibes on the left, with the Phare de la Garoupe (the Garopue lighthouse), built 1836–7 and the tower of the Chapelle Notre-Dames de la Garde, while, on the right, is the town itself with the two towers of the Château Grimaldi (present-day Musée Picasso) and the Tour Grimaldi, and, on the far right, the star-shaped Fort Carré, or Square Fort.1 This view is repeated at a slightly closer distance in the lower vista.
For further sketches of the Cap d’Antibes, see folios 4 recto and verso and 5 verso (D21139–D21140, D21142).

Nicola Moorby
March 2017

Revised by Hannah Kaspar
November 2024

1
See Guillaud, Alfrey, Wilton and others 1981, p.285; see also Roland Courtot, ‘Les Carnets de William Turner: Recherches d’identification et de localisation des dessins’, unpublished research notes, Université de Provence à Aix, April 2008, p.3 (shared with former Tate cataloguer Nicola Moorby in email correspondence at that date); Courtot mistakenly identifies the fortress as that of Fort Saint-André.

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Two Views of Antibes, from the Sea 1828’, catalogue entry, March 2017, revised by Hannah Kaspar, November 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/two-views-of-antibes-from-the-sea-r1209821, accessed 15 April 2025.