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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Vessel in a Harbour, ?Ramsgate c.1816-19

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Verso:
Vessel in a Harbour, ?Ramsgate circa 1816–19
D10577
Turner Bequest CXL 85a
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See note to the recto (D10576; Turner Bequest CXL 85) for Finberg’s description of this leaf as ‘loose and unnumbered’.
Turner has drawn barges and loading gear, perhaps in Ramsgate harbour in view of the subject on the recto. For Ramsgate in this sketchbook see note to folio 22 verso (D10451).

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Vessel in a Harbour, ?Ramsgate 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-vessel-in-a-harbour-ramsgate-r1131438, accessed 28 March 2024.