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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ostend: Outskirts of Town, with Windmill, Church Towers, Etc 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ostend: Outskirts of Town, with Windmill, Church Towers, Etc’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Recto:
Ostend: Outskirts of Town, with Windmill, Church Towers, Etc. 1833
D29601
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 4
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in red ink by Ruskin ‘4’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCVI 4’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These sketches depict aspects of Ostend. Windmills, the Peperbusse or St. Peter Tower, and the lighthouse are visible.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Ostend: Outskirts of Town, with Windmill, Church Towers, Etc 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-outskirts-of-town-with-windmill-church-towers-etc-r1202899, accessed 22 July 2024.