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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings and Shipping at Yarmouth c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings and Shipping at Yarmouth’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto:
Buildings and Shipping at Yarmouth c.1824
D18218
Turner Bequest CCIX 32
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘[al]lee | [18]19’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘5 3 5’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts aspects of the port of Yarmouth on the Norfolk coast. Drawing from various vantage points the artist records buildings and houses overlooking the sands, the town and coastline beyond. The monument erected in memory of Admiral Horatio Nelson can be seen at far right in the central view. This sketch was preparatory material for the watercolour design of Yarmouth engraved in 1829 for the England and Wales series (see Tate impression T04547).1
For other sketches of Yarmouth in this book see Tate D18203–D18223; Turner Bequest CCIX 24a–34a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.394 no.810.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buildings and Shipping 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-buildings-and-shipping-at-yarmouth-r1181100, accessed 19 September 2024.