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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Oost Staketsel Pier and Beacon at Ostend, with Sailing Boats 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Oost Staketsel Pier and Beacon at Ostend, with Sailing Boats’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Recto:
The Oost Staketsel Pier and Beacon at Ostend, with Sailing Boats 1840
D30474
Turner Bequest CCCIII 8
Pencil on flecked pale blue laid paper, 104 x 170 mm
Partial watermark: Tree of Liberty
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘8’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CCCIII – 8’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. It seems to show the former Oost Staketsel pier beside the channel into Ostend’s harbour, with what appears to be a loose reprise with small boats at the top right; see also the verso (D30475) and folios 14 verso and 15 verso (D30484, D30486; CCCIII 13a, 14a), and compare views in the 1833 Brussels up to Mannheim – Rhine sketchbook (Tate D29599–D29600; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 3, 3a). For numerous Ostend views on adjacent pages of the present book, marking the end of Turner’s 1840 tour, see under folio 1 recto (D30460).1
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See also Powell 1995, p.246.
Technical notes:
For discussion of the watermark, see the overall technical notes in the sketchbook’s Introduction.1

Matthew Imms
September 2018

1
See also Bower 1999, pp.102–3.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Oost Staketsel Pier and Beacon at Ostend, with Sailing Boats 1840 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2019, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-oost-staketsel-pier-and-beacon-at-ostend-with-sailing-r1196234, accessed 25 April 2024.