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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Shipping, at ?Calais or Dover 1820

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Shipping, at ?Calais or Dover’ 1820 (Inside back cover of sketchbook)
Inside back cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Back Cover:
Sketches of Shipping, at ?Calais or Dover 1820
D40989
Turner Bequest CXCIII
Inscribed by the artist in pencil ‘White [B...] land’ within sketch, top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
In early 1820, at the end of his six month tour of Italy, Turner headed homeward and crossed the Channel between Calais and Dover. This page contains studies of shipping seen near the coastline of either of the two harbours, although the artist’s inscription within the uppermost view suggests that this may depict the white cliffs of Dover. Related sketches can be found on folio 106 verso (D16889; Turner Bequest CXCIII 105a).

Nicola Moorby
March 2011

How to cite

Nicola Moorby, ‘Sketches of Shipping, at ?Calais or Dover 1820 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, 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-sketches-of-shipping-at-calais-or-dover-r1138665, accessed 24 April 2024.