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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Ostend: Group of Boats, with Tower, Etc., Beyond 1833

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ostend: Group of Boats, with Tower, Etc., Beyond’ 1833
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 4 Verso:
Ostend: Group of Boats, with Tower, Etc., Beyond 1833
D29602
Turner Bequest CCXCVI 4a
Pencil on cream wove paper, 113 x 185 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘86’ bottom left (inversely)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Fishing boats are moored at the harbour of Ostend, with the Peperbusse or St. Peter Tower visible in the background.

Alice Rylance-Watson
February 2017

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Ostend: Group of Boats, with Tower, Etc., Beyond 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-group-of-boats-with-tower-etc-beyond-r1202900, accessed 22 July 2024.