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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Pier or Wharf, with a Windlass, a Capstan and a Cannon: ?Whitby 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Pier or Wharf, with a Windlass, a Capstan and a Cannon: ?Whitby’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio Verso:
A Pier or Wharf, with a Windlass, a Capstan and a Cannon: ?Whitby 1801
D02748
Turner Bequest LIV 84a
Pencil on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing is inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation. The same pier or fortification is drawn on folios 85 verso–86 recto (D02750–D02751). It is probably the East Side Pier at Whitby, one of two moles that protect the harbour formed by the mouth of the River Esk as it flows into the North Sea.
A long sequence of sketches on the Yorkshire coast between Scarborough and Whitby runs between folios 83 verso and 98 verso (D02746–D02776).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Pier or Wharf, with a Windlass, a Capstan and a Cannon: ?Whitby 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-pier-or-wharf-with-a-windlass-a-capstan-and-a-cannon-r1178934, accessed 25 April 2024.