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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Entrance to Ramsgate Harbour, from the Sea c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Entrance to Ramsgate Harbour, from the Sea’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
The Entrance to Ramsgate Harbour, from the Sea circa 1816–19
D10576
Turner Bequest CXL 85
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘85’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXL 85’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This leaf was one of six said by Finberg to be ‘loose and unnumbered’ but which ‘probably belonged to this [sketch]book’.1 It is now bound in with other Ramsgate subjects, for which see note to folio 22 verso (D10451). The view of the harbour with the lighthouse at left and the harbour wall at right is taken from closer than one facing it on folio 23 verso (D10453). Turner sketched them from a boat approaching the harbour from the north. He worked up a similar view for engraving by Robert Wallis in 1824 for Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England and, via the watercolour (Tate D18150; Turner Bequest CCVIII Q), for The Ports of England.

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

1
Finberg 1909 p.404.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Entrance to Ramsgate Harbour, from the Sea 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-the-entrance-to-ramsgate-harbour-from-the-sea-r1131437, accessed 26 April 2024.