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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > East Anglia, Sussex and Yorkshire 1824 > Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Market Place at Yarmouth c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Market Place at Yarmouth’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
Market Place at Yarmouth. c.1824
D18192
Turner Bequest CCIX 19
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 115 mm
Watermarked ‘[al]lee | [18]19’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...] | Blue’ centre right, ‘Fish Sledge’ centre towards bottom left
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘19’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These previously unidentified sketches show the Market Place at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. The uppermost sketch includes the cupola of the Fishermen’s Hospital at far right and the profile of St Nicholas’ Church, whose tapering spire rises loftily above the town. The remaining sketches record aspects of life and labour at the bustling market square. Barrows and handcarts are depicted being navigated through the streets to various destinations, there are wares being loaded and unloaded at stalls, and a ‘Fish Sledge’ used for shrimping at rear. Other studies of Yarmouth include Tate D18191, D18193; Turner Bequest CCIX 18a, 19a.

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Market Place at Yarmouth c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-market-place-at-yarmouth-r1181074, accessed 26 April 2024.