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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Calais Pier, with Figures at Right, Fishing Smacks Beyond 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Calais Pier, with Figures at Right, Fishing Smacks Beyond’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 2 Verso:
Calais Pier, with Figures at Right, Fishing Smacks Beyond 1802
D04194
Turner Bequest LXXI 2a
Pencil on wove paper prepared with a grey wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 3a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch continues across folio 3 of this sketchbook (D04195). This portion is mainly devoted to an outline sketch of Fort Rouge, a wooden ‘bateau fixe’ built by Louis XIV to defend Calais, that stood on piles just outside the harbour. It was destroyed by fire in 1856. Though slight, the sketch anticipates but extends further to the left the composition of Calais Pier, with French Poissards Preparing for Sea; an English Packet Arriving, shown at the Royal Academy in 1803 (National Gallery, London).1

David Blayney Brown
April 2003

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.37–8 no.48 (pl.58).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Calais Pier, with Figures at Right, Fishing Smacks Beyond 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2003, 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-calais-pier-with-figures-at-right-fishing-smacks-beyond-r1133748, accessed 25 April 2024.