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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Calais Pier, with Figures at Right, Sailing Vessels Beyond 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Calais Pier, with Figures at Right, Sailing Vessels Beyond’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Recto:
Calais Pier, with Figures at Right, Sailing Vessels Beyond 1802
D04195
Turner Bequest LXXI 3
Pencil on wove paper prepared with a grey wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 3’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The subject is a continuation of the drawing on folio 2 verso of this sketchbook (D04194), for which see catalogue entry. The pier, with a cluster of figures looking out to sea, appears here at right and two vessels are seen in the middle distance.
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David Blayney Brown
April 2003

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Calais Pier, with Figures at Right, Sailing Vessels Beyond 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2003, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-calais-pier-with-figures-at-right-sailing-vessels-beyond-r1133749, accessed 28 December 2024.