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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Pier or Wharf with a Ship Beyond: ?Whitby 1801

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Pier or Wharf with a Ship Beyond: ?Whitby’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 86 Recto:
A Pier or Wharf with a Ship Beyond: ?Whitby 1801
D02751
Turner Bequest LIV 86
Pencil, wash and gouache on white wove paper prepared with a mauve-pink ground, 115 x 164 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘86’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LIV 86’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a continuation of the drawing on folio 85 verso opposite (D02750), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Pier or Wharf with a Ship Beyond: ?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-ship-beyond-whitby-r1178937, accessed 23 April 2024.