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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Horses and Carriages on a Beach or Quay, ?at Dover 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Horses and Carriages on a Beach or Quay, ?at Dover’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Horses and Carriages on a Beach or Quay, ?at Dover 1840
D30482
Turner Bequest CCCIII 12a
Pencil on flecked pale blue laid paper, 104 x 170 mm
Partial watermark (countermark): indecipherable maker’s name
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. It shows a group of horse-drawn carriages seemingly gathered on a beach or quayside, likely at Dover, as discussed under the view of Dover Castle from the sea on folio 14 recto opposite (D30483; CCCIII 13). Such scenes were no doubt familiar at either end of Turner’s Continental tours; compare a similar gathering near the steamer jetty among drawings of the beach at Margate (Tate D29014; Turner Bequest CCXCII 63) and see also Tate D24790 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 225).
This subject and a few others fall within a sequence of coastal views at Ostend, marking the end of Turner’s long Continental itinerary; see under folio 1 recto (D30460).1

Matthew Imms
September 2018

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See also Powell 1995, p. 246.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Horses and Carriages on a Beach or Quay, ?at Dover 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-horses-and-carriages-on-a-beach-or-quay-at-dover-r1196242, accessed 20 April 2024.