Joseph Mallord William Turner

Shipping at Sea; a Ground Plan of a Building and its Surroundings

c.1830

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Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Kent Sketchbook
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
Support: 98 x 76 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D35782
Turner Bequest CCCLXIII 13 a

Catalogue entry

With the page turned vertically, at the outer edge are two sailing ships and a smaller boat, perhaps observed off the coast of Kent, the subject of identified drawings elsewhere in this sketchbook; see the Introduction.
Most of the page is taken up with a partial ground plan of a large building, with a sketch map of its surroundings. The arrangement does not correspond to Canterbury Cathedral and its close (for subjects in the city see under folio 3 recto; D35761). It may represent a large house and its grounds, with at least one road or path, and the disk above may represent a garden feature such as a pond.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

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