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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Shipping at Portsmouth 1844

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Shipping at Portsmouth’ 1844 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
?Shipping at Portsmouth 1844
D41236
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 116 mm
Inscribed by later hands in ink and pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards top left
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCLXII’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCCLXII’ towards top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Scattered across the page, particularly at the centre left and towards the top right, are notations perhaps indicating sails. Presumably, like the other rapid sketches in this book, they relate to the arrival of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, at Portsmouth Harbour on 8 October 1844, as discussed in the Introductions to the sketchbook and the overall section.
Overlapping with Turner’s drawings in the top half and rendering them still less decipherable is the endorsement of the Turner Bequest executors, Henry Scott Trimmer, Charles Turner, John Prescott Knight and Charles Lock Eastlake, in ink ‘No 200, This book contains 34 | Pencil Scraps | H. S. Trimmer – – | C Turner’ and in pencil ‘JPK’ and ‘C.L.E.’ below.

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Shipping at Portsmouth 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-shipping-at-portsmouth-r1185633, accessed 22 November 2024.