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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ostend: Pier, with Lighthouse 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ostend: Pier, with Lighthouse’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 3 Verso:
Ostend: Pier, with Lighthouse 1833
D29600
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 3a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘[...]’ top right
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘87’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner depicts Ostend Pier, with moored boats and wheeled carts or bathing machines on the beach. A lighthouse can be seen at right; it appears again on Tate D29599; Turner Bequest CCXCVI 3, and in other later sketches such as Tate D30467, D30469, D30492, D30495– D30495; Turner Bequest CCCIII 4a, 5a, 18, 19a–20.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Ostend: Pier, with Lighthouse 1833 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2017, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2023, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ostend-pier-with-lighthouse-r1202898, accessed 22 July 2024.