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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping on the Maas at Rotterdam 1835

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping on the Maas at Rotterdam’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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Shipping on the Maas at Rotterdam 1835
D32490
Turner Bequest CCCXXI 24 a
Pencil on off-white laid paper, 95 x 153 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has produced a series of slight sketches depicting shipping on the River Maas (Meuse) near the Old Port (Oude Haven) of Rotterdam (see Tate D32489; Turner Bequest CCCXXI 24). The crosses are shorthand for windmills.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2016

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Shipping on the Maas at Rotterdam 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2016, 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-shipping-on-the-maas-at-rotterdam-r1187304, accessed 02 August 2025.