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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ramsgate, from the Sea; the Harbour c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ramsgate, from the Sea; the Harbour’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 36 Verso:
Ramsgate, from the Sea; the Harbour circa 1816–19
D10578
Turner Bequest CXL 86
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘86’ top right, running vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXL 86’ top right, running vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest stamp right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See notes to the recto (D10579; Turner Bequest CXL 86a) for Finberg’s description of this leaf as ‘loose and unnumbered’ and damage during an earlier break-up of the sketchbook. For Ramsgate in this sketchbook see note to folio 22 verso (D10451).

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Ramsgate, from the Sea; the Harbour 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-from-the-sea-the-harbour-r1131461, accessed 16 April 2024.