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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Stettin Harbour with Boats, Figure Groups, Carts, Luggage, and Equipment 1835

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Stettin Harbour with Boats, Figure Groups, Carts, Luggage, and Equipment’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Recto
Stettin Harbour with Boats, Figure Groups, Carts, Luggage, and Equipment 1835
D31084
Turner Bequest CCCVII 33
Pencil on cream laid paper, 89 x 162 mm
Watermarked with a beehive surrounded by garlands and bees
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘W’, ‘Boat W[...]’, ‘[?R...] and Low’ top left; ‘Light yellow Fore sail’ top centre towards right; ‘not [...]’ centre towards top right; ‘Brown Dray’ right centre; ‘Raft [...] N B’ bottom right towards centre (inverted); ‘Jack for [?loading]’ bottom centre; ‘Green Red’ bottom left towards centre, ‘Red’ right centre
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘33’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCVII–33’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts a barge moored at Stettin Harbour; luggage and various pieces of equipment litter the quayside. Above the boat are isolated jottings of figures gathered at the port and a series of wooden carts. Turner has annotated the sketch with a number of inscriptions: ‘Light yellow Fore sail’, ‘Brown Dray’, ‘Green’ and ‘Red’ by the figure of a woman in the foreground. All inscriptions are transcribed in full above.
For other sketches of Stettin see Tate D31083–D31093, D31095–D31106; Turner Bequest CCCVII 32a–37a, 38a–44.

Alice Rylance-Watson
May 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Stettin Harbour with Boats, Figure Groups, Carts, Luggage, and Equipment 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-stettin-harbour-with-boats-figure-groups-carts-luggage-and-r1186957, accessed 23 September 2024.