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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Unloading a Boat at North Queensferry 1818

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 51 Recto:
Unloading a Boat at North Queensferry 1818
D13549
Turner Bequest CLXVI 51
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 51’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This picture of a boat unloading at North Queensferry continues from folio 50 verso (D13548) where the Town Pier is depicted. At the top of the present folio is a slight sketch of another view presumably nearby. The sketch may even be a continuation of the view to the right of the main picture, showing part of Inchgarvie and the Firth of Forth to the south.
Slight damage to the page at the top right has been repaired.

Thomas Ardill
January 2007

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Unloading a Boat at North Queensferry 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2007, 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-unloading-a-boat-at-north-queensferry-r1132094, accessed 29 March 2024.