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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The West Pier, Leith Harbour; and Shipping 1822

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The West Pier, Leith Harbour; and Shipping’ 1822
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 67 Verso:
The West Pier, Leith Harbour; and Shipping 1822
D17624
Turner Bequest CC 67a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 187 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[?]Red B’ bottom right
Blindstamped with the Turner Bequest stamp bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook inverted are two rapidly executed drawings of boats under sail in Leith Roads. The three or so vessels, drawn with the simplest and quickest means at the top of the page, are repeated below to the west of Leith’s old West Pier, which has now been removed, with its signal tower or lighthouse at its head which is also drawn on the Inside Front Cover of this sketchbook (Tate D40687). The inscription may refer to a ‘Red [Boat]’.

Thomas Ardill
September 2008

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘The West Pier, Leith Harbour; and Shipping 1822 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2008, 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-west-pier-leith-harbour-and-shipping-r1132965, accessed 24 April 2024.