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 Fish Quay, North Shields 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fish Quay, North Shields’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
Fish Quay, North Shields 1818
D13479
Turner Bequest CLXVI 16
Pencil on white wove paper, 90 x 112 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLXVI 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This cluttered harbour is Fish Quay at North Shields. Across this page and folios 15 verso (D13478) Turner has drawn a view of the quay looking west up to the town and out to the River Tyne. Beyond the ragged shacks (or ‘shiels’ from which the town gets its name) are the two harbour lights, Low Light at the left, and High Light at the right above the houses. The harbour is made out by the masts of ships, and the beach and shoreline of the Tyne can be seen on folio 15 verso. Turner made a similar view across folios 1 verso and 2 of this sketchbook (D13450–D13451).
For more information on Turner’s visit to North and South Shields and his sketches of the town and surrounding area, see folio 13 (D13473).

Thomas Ardill
August 2009

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Fish Quay, North Shields 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-fish-quay-north-shields-r1132024, accessed 24 April 2024.