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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping before the Oude Hooft-Poort, Rotterdam 1835

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping before the Oude Hooft-Poort, Rotterdam’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 24 Recto:
Shipping before the Oude Hooft-Poort, Rotterdam 1835
D32489
Turner Bequest CCCXXI 24
Pencil on off-white laid paper, 95 x 153 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘24’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCXXI–24’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a view of the Eastern Old Gate or Ooster Oude Hooft-Poort in Rotterdam’s Oude Haven. This sixteenth century building marked the entrance to the city’s canal system from the River Maas (Meuse). In earlier sketchbooks Turner produced a number of detailed studies of the building, which was demolished in the mid 1800s (see Tate D13020–D123021, D19484; Turner Bequest CLXII 13a–14, CCXV 53).

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2016

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Shipping before the Oude Hooft-Poort, Rotterdam 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2016, 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-shipping-before-the-oude-hooft-poort-rotterdam-r1187303, accessed 18 April 2024.