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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Waterfront at Portsmouth, Including the Round Tower 1844

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Waterfront at Portsmouth, Including the Round Tower’ 1844
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Recto:
The Waterfront at Portsmouth, Including the Round Tower 1844
D35694
Turner Bequest CCCLXII 6
Pencil on white wove paper, 116 x 74 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘6’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXII – 6’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Like the other rapid sketches in this book, this relates to the arrival of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, at Portsmouth Harbour on 8 October 1844, as discussed in the Introductions to the sketchbook and the overall section. As Ian Warrell has noted,1 the main structure here, drawn twice with the page turned vertically among other waterfront buildings, is the Round Tower on the east side of the harbour’s mouth.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

1
See Warrell 2013, p.10.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Waterfront at Portsmouth, Including the Round Tower 1844 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, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-waterfront-at-portsmouth-including-the-round-tower-r1185643, accessed 23 April 2024.