Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Harbour and Shipping c.1835–40
Pencil on white wove paper 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLXXIX (a)’ and ‘S014’ top left
Blind stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, centre
Stamped in black ‘CCLXXIX (a)’ top left
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.887.
This inside cover of the sketchbook bears the endorsements of Turner’s executors. In ink, Henry Scott Trimmer signed the top right-hand corner of the page and inscribed it, ‘No 269 | 57 leaves of | pencil sketches’. Just below, John Prescott Knight and Sir Charles Eastlake left their initials in pencil. The latter also noted ‘56 leaves | 57 counting wrapper’.
The slight studies of shipping featured here are typical of much of this sketchbook’s contents. For more information, see the sketchbook Introduction.
In his 1909 inventory of the Turner Bequest, A.J. Finberg did not give this inside front cover a number.
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The glue used to fasten the paper to the binding boards has stained the inside front cover.
How to cite
John Chu, ‘Harbour and Shipping c.1835–40 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 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-harbour-and-shipping-r1181504, accessed 26 July 2026.
