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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stettin: The Harbour, with Boats and Figures 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stettin: The Harbour, with Boats and Figures’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 31 Verso
Stettin: The Harbour, with Boats and Figures 1835
D31083
Turner Bequest CCCVII 32 a
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘Pig and Calv’ right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch shows the port at Stettin, Prussia (modern day Szczecin in Poland). There are numerous figures bustling around docked boats, loading and off-loading wares and buying and selling goods. Turner has inscribed ‘Pig and Calv’ at right.
For other sketches of Stettin see Tate D31084–D31093, D31095–D31106; Turner Bequest CCCVII 33–37a, 38a–44.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Stettin: The Harbour, with Boats and Figures 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-stettin-the-harbour-with-boats-and-figures-r1186956, accessed 18 April 2024.