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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Two-Masted Sailing Ship Seen from the Shore; a Groyne in the Foreground 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Two-Masted Sailing Ship Seen from the Shore; a Groyne in the Foreground’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Two-Masted Sailing Ship Seen from the Shore; a Groyne in the Foreground 1796–7
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Turner Bequest XXXIII R
Pencil, watercolour and gouache on coarse buff laid paper, 201 x 271 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXXIII – R’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Like other marine works in this subsection (see the Introduction), this was perhaps drawn at Margate.
Technical notes:
The sheet is slightly discoloured and faded from exposure.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Two-Masted Sailing Ship Seen from the Shore; a Groyne in the Foreground 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-two-masted-sailing-ship-seen-from-the-shore-a-groyne-in-r1149795, accessed 20 May 2024.