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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The 'Gomer' Arriving in Portsmouth Harbour, Attended by Sailing Boats 1844

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The 'Gomer' Arriving in Portsmouth Harbour, Attended by Sailing Boats’ 1844
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
The ‘Gomer’ Arriving in Portsmouth Harbour, Attended by Sailing Boats 1844
D35717
Turner Bequest CCCLXII 18
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 116 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘18’ top left, upside down
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXII – 18’ top left, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this drawing continues on folio 17 verso opposite (D35716), under which the subject is described. 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.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The ‘Gomer’ Arriving in Portsmouth Harbour, Attended by Sailing Boats 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-gomer-arriving-in-portsmouth-harbour-attended-by-sailing-r1185661, accessed 25 April 2024.