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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Oost Staketsel Pier and Beacon at Ostend 1840

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Oost Staketsel Pier and Beacon at Ostend’ 1840
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 14 Verso:
The Oost Staketsel Pier and Beacon at Ostend 1840
D30484
Turner Bequest CCCIII 13a
Pencil on flecked pale blue laid paper, 104 x 170 mm
Partial watermark: Tree of Liberty
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This loose drawing was made with the page turned horizontally. It seems to show the old wooden east pier beside the harbour channel at Ostend, with a beacon at its seaward end; the structure is drawn in detail on folio 15 verso (D30486; CCCIII 14a). See also folios 8 recto and verso (D30474–D30475).
For numerous Ostend views on adjacent pages of this sketchbook, marking the end of Turner’s 1840 tour, see under folio 1 recto (D30460).

Matthew Imms
September 2018

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Oost Staketsel Pier and Beacon at Ostend 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-r1196244, accessed 25 April 2024.