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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping at Portsmouth ?1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping at Portsmouth’ ?1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Shipping at Portsmouth ?1824
D17947
Turner Bequest CCVI 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 100 x 160 mm
Watermark ‘1821’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘18’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCVI – 18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a brief continuation of the hull of a warship from a view of Portsmouth’s naval dockyard on folio 17 verso opposite (D17946), under which the subject is discussed.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Shipping at Portsmouth ?1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-shipping-at-portsmouth-r1172664, accessed 27 April 2024.