Saltash with the Water Ferry is an 1811 landscape painting by the British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner.
[1] It depicts the town of Saltash on the River Tamar, directly across from the major port of Plymouth in Devon A ferry ran between the two settlements and is depicted in the painting.
The presence of a redcoat sentry and a quote from Horatio Nelson are reminders of the ongoing Napoleonic Wars.
[2] Turner painted it during an 1811 visit to the West Country.
[3] The work is today in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, having been acquired in 1889 through the Marquand Collection of Henry Gurdon Marquand.