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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping on River; and an Inscription 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping on River; and an Inscription’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 62 Verso:
Shipping on River; and an Inscription 1831
D25755
Turner Bequest CCLXV 62a
Pencil on white wove paper, 59 x 96 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sketch of a river or estuary with anchored boats has not been identified. For further sketches of shipping in this sketchbook see folio 10 (D25659).
At the top of the page Turner wrote the inscription ‘6 w[est] G[e]o[rge] squ[are] yard’. It is not clear which George Square this might refer to, but it is worth noting that Sir Walter Scott, on whose commission Turner travelled to Scotland in 1831, once lived in George Square in Edinburgh, though at number 25 not number 6.

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Shipping on River; and an Inscription 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, 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-shipping-on-river-and-an-inscription-r1134119, accessed 26 April 2024.