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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Scenes on the Sands at Yarmouth c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Verso:
Scenes on the Sands at Yarmouth c.1824
D18211
Turner Bequest CCIX 28a
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Marine Tavern | ale’ centre left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches show aspects of the port of Great Yarmouth on the Norfolk coast. Sailors and fishermen are recorded in the central and lowermost views, gathered around moored vessels perhaps offloading their catch. Turner has also sketched the local ‘Marine Tavern’ on the seafront where ‘ale’ is sold. The length of Yarmouth’s old pier is depicted at rear, extending out into the North Sea where a fishing smack and lugger can be seen navigating the waters in the distance. Similar drawings are found on Tate D18207, D18209–D18210; Turner Bequest CCIX 26a, 27a–28. Turner’s sketches are associated with designs for both the England and Wales (Tate impression T04547) and East Coast engraving schemes, though the latter design, housed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, was unpublished.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

1
Wilton 1979, p.394 no.810 and 405 no.904.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Scenes on the Sands at Yarmouth c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-scenes-on-the-sands-at-yarmouth-r1181093, accessed 29 March 2024.