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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Arrival of Louis-Philippe: Shipping with Bunting in Portsmouth Harbour 1844

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Arrival of Louis-Philippe: Shipping with Bunting in Portsmouth Harbour’ 1844
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Arrival of Louis-Philippe: Shipping with Bunting in Portsmouth Harbour 1844
D35958
Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 115
Watercolour on white wove paper, 237 x 315 mm
Partial watermark ‘99’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Inscribed in red ink ‘115’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXIV – 115’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Like the other works grouped here, 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 this subsection and the overall section.1 In this view, there is an array of shipping in the distance, some decked out in bunting; for other examples see the subsection’s Introduction.2 Towards the left foreground are the pale sails of smaller boats and slight indications of figures.
1
See also Upstone 1993, p.52, Warrell 2013, p.9, and Smiles 2014, p.168.
2
See also Brown 1987, p.20.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed in ink ‘10’ bottom left, upside down (for other sheets numbered in this way see the Introduction to this subsection); inscribed in pencil ‘ccclxiv’ towards bottom right; stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram over ‘CCCLXIV – 115’ bottom right.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Arrival of Louis-Philippe: Shipping with Bunting in Portsmouth Harbour 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-arrival-of-louis-philippe-shipping-with-bunting-in-r1185701, accessed 25 April 2024.