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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Wales and Isle of Wight 1795-1800 > Smaller South Wales Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Quay, with Buildings, Cliffs, Shipping and Figures; Horse and Cart in Right Foreground c.1795

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Quay, with Buildings, Cliffs, Shipping and Figures; Horse and Cart in Right Foreground’ c.1795
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
A Quay, with Buildings, Cliffs, Shipping and Figures; Horse and Cart in Right Foreground c.1795
D00485
Turner Bequest XXV 24
Pencil on white wove paper, 130 x 205 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘24’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXV 24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Stylistically this drawing seems to be of a piece with the preceding pages, notably the views of Neath on folios 15 recto and 16 recto (D00476, D00477). It possibly shows the harbour at either Saundersfoot or Tenby, but the subject seems more plausibly to be a town on the south-east coast of England; perhaps Ramsgate. All the remaining subjects in the book may be Kentish; compare the South Wales sketchbook (Tate D00628–D00660; Turner Bequest XXVI 71v–98).
Verso:
Blank; some colour offset from folio 25 recto opposite (D00486); stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Quay, with Buildings, Cliffs, Shipping and Figures; Horse and Cart in Right Foreground c.1795 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-a-quay-with-buildings-cliffs-shipping-and-figures-horse-and-r1140804, accessed 26 April 2024.