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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Entrance to Ramsgate Harbour, from the Sea c.1816-19

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Entrance to Ramsgate Harbour, from the Sea’ c.1816-19
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 23 Verso:
The Entrance to Ramsgate Harbour, from the Sea circa 1816–19
D10453
Turner Bequest CXL 23a
Pencil on white wove paper, 155 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For Ramsgate in this sketchbook see note to folio 22 verso (D10451). Here, the lighthouse is at left and the harbour wall at right. A closer view facing this one on folio 24 (D10576; Turner Bequest CXL 85) is similar to the watercolour (Tate D18150; Turner Bequest CCVIII Q) later used for The Ports of England. Evidently Turner sketched these views from a boat, approaching the harbour from the north

David Blayney Brown
July 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘The Entrance to Ramsgate Harbour, from the Sea c.1816–19 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-entrance-to-ramsgate-harbour-from-the-sea-r1131436, accessed 23 April 2024.