Gouache and watercolour on paper
Watercolours for ‘Wanderings by the Seine’ (‘Turner’s Annual Tour’)
Watercolours for ‘Wanderings by the Seine’ (‘Turner’s Annual Tour’)
Wanderings by the Seine (Rivers of France)  c.1832-3
Wanderings by the Seine (Rivers of France)  c.1832-3
France
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Turner’s Annual Tour: The Seine 1834 Watercolours
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Le Havre Tour de François Ier
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
architecture
boat, sailing
boat, steam
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
features
France
harbour
Havre, Le, Tour de François Ier
lighthouse
natural features (non-UK)
natural phenomena
pier
places
public and municipal
reflection
river
River Seine
sea
seascapes and coasts
society
tower
townscape, distant
townscapes / man-made features
transport: water
water: inland
<p>Steam power enabled more tourists to visit mainland Europe from the 1820s. British engineers were often employed aboard the vessels, leading one passenger on a steamboat in France to remark that ‘only the food was French’. Depicting the river Seine, Turner observes the same contrasts of old and new that he saw in Britain. At Le Havre, a steamboat passes a historic tower. On a bend of the river between Quillebeuf and Villequier, notorious for tidal waves and shoals, steam tugs escort sailing vessels to safety.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2022</em></p>
paper unique gouache watercolour
15 May 2004 – 16 May 2005
2005-05-16
15 May 2004 – 5 September 2004
2004-09-05
2004-05-15
Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)
http://www.ago.net
16 October 2004 – 16 January 2005
2005-01-16
2004-10-16
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (Paris, France)
10 February 2005 – 16 May 2005
2005-05-16
2005-02-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2004-05-15
Turner Whistler Monet
Exhibition
8 September 2017 – 8 October 2017
2017-10-08
8 September 2017 – 8 October 2017
2017-10-08
2017-09-08
Musée Malraux (Le Havre, France)
2017-09-08
Impressions: Sun
Loan-out
6 June 2019 – 18 August 2019
2019-08-18
6 June 2019 – 18 August 2019
2019-08-18
2019-06-06
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
2019-06-06
Impression, soleil levant
Loan-out
28 October 2020 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
28 October 2020 – 12 September 2021
2021-09-12
2020-10-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2020-10-28
Turner's Modern World
Exhibition
17 October 2021 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
17 October 2021 – 6 February 2022
2022-02-06
2021-10-17
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, USA)
http://www.kimbellart.org
27 March 2022 – 10 July 2022
2022-07-10
2022-03-27
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, USA)
http://www.mfa.org
2021-10-17
Turner's Modern World
Loan-out
Le Havre: Tour de François Ier
support: 140 × 192 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<p>Steam power enabled more tourists to visit mainland Europe from the 1820s. British engineers were often employed aboard the vessels, leading one passenger on a steamboat in France to remark that ‘only the food was French’. Depicting the river Seine, Turner observes the same contrasts of old and new that he saw in Britain. At Le Havre, a steamboat passes a historic tower. On a bend of the river between Quillebeuf and Villequier, notorious for tidal waves and shoals, steam tugs escort sailing vessels to safety.</p>
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architecture boat, sailing boat, steam cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents features France harbour Havre, Le, Tour de François Ier lighthouse natural features (non-UK) natural phenomena pier places public and municipal reflection river River Seine sea seascapes and coasts society tower townscape, distant townscapes / man-made features transport: water water: inland
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