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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Arrival of Louis-Philippe: Portsmouth Harbour with Distant Shipping 1844

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Arrival of Louis-Philippe: Portsmouth Harbour with Distant Shipping’ 1844
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
The Arrival of Louis-Philippe: Portsmouth Harbour with Distant Shipping 1844
D35954
Turner Bequest CCCLXIV 111
Watercolour on white wove paper, 235 x 315 mm
Partial watermark ‘2[...]’
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Inscribed in red ink ‘111’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXIV – 111’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Like the other works grouped here, this relates to the arrival of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, at Portsmouth Harbour on 8 October 1844, as discussed in the Introductions to this subsection and the overall section.1 This is amongst the palest and least developed of the sequence, but a cluster of masts is evident in the distance.
1
See also Warrell 2013, p.10, and Smiles 2014, p.168.
Verso:
Blank; laid down

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘The Arrival of Louis-Philippe: Portsmouth Harbour with Distant Shipping 1844 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-arrival-of-louis-philippe-portsmouth-harbour-with-r1185699, accessed 23 November 2024.