
In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 160 × 240 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D18152
Turner Bequest CCVIII S
Display caption
About 1824-5 Turner, with the engraver Thomas Lupton, planned a series of mezzotint plates of English coastal towns. These were provisionally called 'Harbours of England' and subsequently issued as 'Ports' in 1826. Turner produced 14 of 24 proposed subjects. Important coastal towns are observed from the sea, and the emphasis is always on the marine elements, exemplified here by the man-of-war from the naval docks, saluted by a waving sailor.
Gallery label, August 2004
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