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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Edinburgh, 1818, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Fish Quay, North Shields 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fish Quay, North Shields’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 15 Verso:
Fish Quay, North Shields 1818
D13478
Turner Bequest CLXVI 15a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Continued from folio 16 (D13479) is a sketch of North Shields and the River Tyne from Fish Quays, the oldest part of the town. This part of the sketch shows the quayside, the beach to the east of the town and the view west along the north coast of the Tyne in the direction of Newcastle. The right of the sketch can be seen one of the town’s harbour lights. This is probably the decommissioned old beacon.
For more information on Turner’s visit to North and South Shields and his sketches of the town and surrounding area, see folio 13 (D13473).

Thomas Ardill
August 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Fish Quay, North Shields 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2009, 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-fish-quay-north-shields-r1132023, accessed 10 May 2024.