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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Tobermory Harbour 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tobermory Harbour’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 47 Recto:
Tobermory Harbour 1831
D26831
Turner Bequest CCLXXIII 47
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 186 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by John Ruskin ‘47’ top left running vertically’
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIII 47’ top right running vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
From Tobermory’s Main Street, this sketch looks north-east towards the pier at Tobermory Harbour. A boat with one of its sails half-raised is drawn alongside the pier with another, smaller vessel behind it. Beyond the pier and across the Sound of Mull is the coast of Morvern with the edge of Calve Island just visible at the far right. It was from here that Turner set off on the Maid of Morven steamboat for Staffa. There is a view of the south end of the harbour on the reverse of this page (folio 47 verso; D26832).
For more information about Turner’s time in Tobermory and references to further sketches see folio 1 verso (D26749).

Thomas Ardill
March 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Tobermory Harbour 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-tobermory-harbour-r1135189, accessed 23 September 2024.