'Boats and Figures on the Coast, Calais', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Boats and Figures on the Coast, Calais

From Small Calais Pier Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXI

Date 1802

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 112 x 187 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D04200

Turner Bequest LXXI 8

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 10 Recto:

Boats and Figures on the Coast, Calais 1802

D04200
Turner Bequest LXXI 8

Pencil on wove paper prepared with a reddish brown wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 8’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Numbered by Finberg as folio 8 in this book, this has since been rebound as folio 10. This group of wooden posts or groynes is presumably on Calais Pier, perhaps with Fort Rouge in the middle distance.

Verso:

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David Blayney Brown
April 2003

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Geographic location

France

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Small Calais Pier Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest

Galleries

Joseph Mallord William TurnerBoats and Figures on the Coast, Calais 1802

Artwork details

Turner's sketchbooks