drawing
- Museum number
- 1878,1228.46
- Description
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Dover - inner harbour and town; one-masted vessel with smaller boats by it anchored in harbour to right, beyond old houses clustered on the wharf beneath chalk cliffs
Watercolour
- Production date
- 1794-1795
- Dimensions
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Height: 199 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Based on a drawing by Henderson, in the Department, 1878,1228.166. The watercolour was originally accepted as the work of Turner, but Finberg proposed that it was by Henderson himself; Wilton saw it as 'cruder' than the similar examples, 1878,1228.45 and 47, and thought that it was by 'yet another hand'. Henderson's drawings of Dover probably date from 1794, the date of a print he made based on one of them, 1906-4-19-104.
Ref: A.J.Finberg, 'Some so-called Turners in the Print Room', 'The Burlington Magazine', June 1906, pp.192-95.
A. Wilton, 'The 'Monro School' question: some answers', 'Turner Studies' vol.IV: 2, 1984, p.23, n.40.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1878,1228.46
