Joseph Mallord William Turner

Harbour with Shipping, ?Northern France

1826

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Loose Studies of Northern France
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: Support: 174 x 240 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D34442
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV 85

Catalogue entry

These sketches of a harbour with shipping are worked onto a sheet of white Whatman paper, a batch of which Turner took on his 1826 tour of Northern France.1

Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.23.

Technical Notes:

The sketch is drawn on a sheet of paper folded in two. It is attached along the top edge to
D34441 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 84).

Verso:

Inscribed in pencil with the note ‘236’ in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet.

John Chu
March 2016

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