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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Scene on Quay ?at Calais 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Scene on Quay ?at Calais’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 193 Recto:
Scene on Quay ?at Calais 1824
D19922
Turner Bequest CCXVI 186
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mmm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘186’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–186’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner makes a swift record of a scene on a quay, possibly at Calais. Figures walk down a jetty at centre and boats with tall masts are moored at right. This sketch is connected to the drawing of fishermen and fishwives on the folio opposite (Tate D20083; Turner Bequest CCXVI 272). For other drawings of Calais harbour and the beach (see Tate D04196, D04197, D20077, D28477–D28478, D24907, D24949; Turner Bequest LXXI 4, 5, CCXVI 268a, CCLX 41–42, CCLX 71, 113).

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Scene on Quay ?at Calais 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-scene-on-quay-at-calais-r1174718, accessed 18 September 2024.