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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping at Sea; a Ground Plan of a Building and its Surroundings c.1830

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping at Sea; a Ground Plan of a Building and its Surroundings’ c.1830
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Shipping at Sea; a Ground Plan of a Building and its Surroundings c.1830
D35782
Turner Bequest CCCLXIII 13a
Pencil on white wove paper, 98 x 76 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned vertically, at the outer edge are two sailing ships and a smaller boat, perhaps observed off the coast of Kent, the subject of identified drawings elsewhere in this sketchbook; see the Introduction.
Most of the page is taken up with a partial ground plan of a large building, with a sketch map of its surroundings. The arrangement does not correspond to Canterbury Cathedral and its close (for subjects in the city see under folio 3 recto; D35761). It may represent a large house and its grounds, with at least one road or path, and the disk above may represent a garden feature such as a pond.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Shipping at Sea; a Ground Plan of a Building and its Surroundings c.1830 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-shipping-at-sea-a-ground-plan-of-a-building-and-its-r1183745, accessed 14 May 2024.