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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Helmsley Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Whitby 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Whitby’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 7 Recto:
Whitby 1801
D02470
Turner Bequest LIII 7
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 162 mm
Partial watermark ‘94 | atman’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘7’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LIII – 7’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, showing a more distant view from the same direction as that on folio 6 recto (D02469), this is one of three views of Whitby taken from similar viewpoints in the Inner Harbour; see also folio 8 recto (D02471). Gerald Wilkinson thought that the style of this drawing was consistent with its (and the rest of the sketchbook’s) having been executed on Turner’s previous visit to the north–east, in 1797.1
For other views of Whitby in this book, see under D02469.
1
See Wilkinson 1972, p.109.
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Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Whitby 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-whitby-r1178492, accessed 17 July 2024.