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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Shipping at Rotterdam 1835

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Shipping at Rotterdam’ 1835
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 27 Verso:
Shipping at Rotterdam 1835
D32496
Turner Bequest CCCXXI 27 a
Pencil on off-white laid paper, 153 x 95 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the sketchbook turned upside down, here Turner has recorded various ships and boats sailing around the port of Rotterdam.

Alice Rylance-Watson
April 2016

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Shipping at 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-at-rotterdam-r1187310, accessed 25 April 2024.