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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1836-47 Modern painter > Autumn Tour of Northern France 1845 > Dieppe and Kent Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Buildings Including a Tower; Sailing Boats Entering a Channel Harbour 1845

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Buildings Including a Tower; Sailing Boats Entering a Channel Harbour’ 1845
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Verso:
Buildings Including a Tower; Sailing Boats Entering a Channel Harbour 1845
D35647
Turner Bequest CCCLXI 89a
Pencil on white wove paper, 86 x 111 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[?9]’ top centre, over tower
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
At the top is a row of low buildings around a tower; below, inverted, is a study of sailing boats off a pier or harbour wall, presumably on a Channel coast. See the sketchbook’s Introduction for the many slight coastal views scattered through it.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Buildings Including a Tower; Sailing Boats Entering a Channel Harbour 1845 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-buildings-including-a-tower-sailing-boats-entering-a-channel-r1184062, accessed 25 April 2024.