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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ramsgate Harbour from the North-West; Pier Castle c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ramsgate Harbour from the North-West; Pier Castle’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Verso:
Ramsgate Harbour from the North-West; Pier Castle circa 1816–19
D10451
Turner Bequest CXL 22a
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Pier (sometimes Ramsgate) Castle, drawn at lower left of the leaf, is a square block with round corner towers and crenellated walls on the corner of Harbour Street and Kent Terrace overlooking the harbour wall. It was designed by Mary Townley, an amateur architect financed by her wealthy husband in the construction of a number of buildings in Ramsgate. Said to have been built in 1819 it is now occupied by a restaurant and café.
Sketches of Ramsgate run to folio 27 verso of the sketchbook (D10455; Turner Bequest CXL 24a). In view of their quantity, and direction from on and off-shore, Turner may have stayed in the town for several days.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Ramsgate Harbour from the North-West; Pier Castle c.1816–19 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2011, 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-ramsgate-harbour-from-the-north-west-pier-castle-r1131434, accessed 26 April 2024.