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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Classical Buildings, with Shipping 1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Classical Buildings, with Shipping’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Verso:
Classical Buildings, with Shipping 1805
D05566
Turner Bequest XC 48a
Pen and ink and brown wash on off-white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 150 x 258 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This design for a classical seaport, worked up with wash, incorporates round or fortified buildings sketched in outline on folios 45 verso and 46 verso of the sketchbook (D05561, D05563).

David Blayney Brown
August 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Classical Buildings, with Shipping 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2007, 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-classical-buildings-with-shipping-r1129880, accessed 26 April 2024.