Graham & Brown Turner Plymouth Dock Bespoke Mural

Original Artwork Accreditation:

AFTER JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER

Plymouth Dock, seen from Mount Edgecombe, Devonshire, engraved by W.B.Cooke Published 1816 Engraving on paper Tate. Transferred from the British Museum 1988

This drawing of Plymouth Dock, the largest naval dockyard in Western Europe at the time, is one of many works by Turner that feature boats and the sea, a subject matter that he often returned to.