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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Northern France c.1826-32 > Loose Studies of Northern France > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Harbour with Shipping, ?Northern France 1826

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Harbour with Shipping, ?Northern France’ 1826
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Harbour with Shipping, ?Northern France 1826
D34442
Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 85
Pencil on white wove paper, 174 x 240 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘[...]h[...]’ top left, ‘WH [...]’ top centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘85’ bottom right
Blind stamped twice with the Turner Bequest monogram centre
Stamped in black ‘CCCXLIV 85’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches of a harbour with shipping are worked onto a sheet of white Whatman paper, a batch of which Turner took on his 1826 tour of Northern France.1
1
Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1997, p.23.
Technical Notes:
The sketch is drawn on a sheet of paper folded in two. It is attached along the top edge to
D34441 (Turner Bequest CCCXLIV d 84).
Verso:
Inscribed in pencil with the note ‘236’ in the bottom right-hand corner of the sheet.

John Chu
March 2016

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Harbour with Shipping, ?Northern France 1826 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-harbour-with-shipping-northern-france-r1185607, accessed 26 April 2024.