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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Scotland 1818-20 > Edinburgh, 1818, Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner North Shields from the South 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘North Shields from the South’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
North Shields from the South 1818
D13474
Turner Bequest CLXVI 13a
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Either from a boat in the Tyne, or from South Shields this view of North Shields shows the town with several houses on the quay and the rooftops of the newer part of town on the plateau above. At the left of the town is the High Light, with the town’s other harbour light (the Low Light) shown on folio 14 (D13475) where this sketch continues slightly.
Three thumbnail sketches show details of the town including one of the harbour lights (perhaps the decommissioned old beacon) at the top right and two boxed-off sketches of buildings at the bottom left of the page, drawn with the sketchbook turned to the right.
For more information on Turner’s visit to North and South Shields and his sketches of it, see folio 13 (D13473).
There is a small tear at the centre of the outside edge of the page.

Thomas Ardill
August 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘North Shields from the South 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, August 2009, 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-north-shields-from-the-south-r1132019, accessed 23 April 2024.