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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings and Shipping at Yarmouth c.1824

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Verso:
Buildings and Shipping at Yarmouth c.1824
D18215
Turner Bequest CCIX 30 a
Pencil on white wove paper, 118 x 115 mm
Watermarked ‘[al]lee | [18]19’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘C[...]’ top left toward centre, ‘E [...] [?family]’ left centre, ‘O W W L[...]’ right centre ‘C[...]’ centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner has recorded aspects of Yarmouth in Norfolk. Drawing with the sketchbook turned vertically, the artist pictures its streets and harbour in four views. At the uppermost register one of the towers of the medieval town wall is depicted (see Tate D18214; Turner Bequest CCIX 30). The two rear views show shipping docked at Yarmouth harbour, possibly the South Quay. Turner has annotated the drawing with four rather illegible inscriptions transcribed in full above. For other sketches of Yarmouth in this book see Tate D18203–D18223; Turner Bequest CCIX 24a–34a. Turner’s sketches are associated with designs for both the England and Wales (Tate impression T04547) and East Coast engraving schemes, though the latter design, housed at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, was unpublished.1

Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

1
Wilton 1979, p.394 no.810 and 405 no.904.

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Buildings and Shipping 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-buildings-and-shipping-at-yarmouth-r1181097, accessed 19 September 2024.