Joseph Mallord William Turner

Boats Moored in Trieste Harbour

1840

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Trieste, Graz and Danube Sketchbook
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 127 × 198 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D30117
Turner Bequest CCXCIX 61

Catalogue entry

This study was made with the page turned horizontally. The mast and spar of the more prominent vessel is continued upwards across the gutter onto folio 60 verso opposite (D30116). There appears to be a domed building lightly indicated beyond. This is one of a sequence of views in and around the Adriatic port city of Trieste, made working inwards from the back of this sketchbook; see under folio 57 recto (D30109).1

Matthew Imms
September 2018

See also Powell 1995, pp.66, 81 note 18.

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