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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fishing-Boat in Rough Water, Seen from Above 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Fishing-Boat in Rough Water, Seen from Above’ 1796-7
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Fishing-Boat in Rough Water, Seen from Above 1796–7
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Turner Bequest XXIII U
Pencil and watercolour with pen and brown ink on white laid paper, 199 x 249 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Inscribed in red ink ‘XXIII U’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XXIII U’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg included this with a series of coastal subjects executed c.1794,1 but it is clearly a work of about 1796, sharing the energy and technical fluency of the studies of fishermen catalogued in the present group. There is a rough pencil study of the boat above.
1
Finberg 1909, I, p.39, in Turner Bequest section XXIII, ‘Miscellaneous Water Colours, &c.’, c.1794, pp.37–40.
Technical notes:
There are paint trials at the lower left. The sheet has been folded vertically down the centre.
Verso:
Blank; a smear of sepia paint; inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘733’.

Andrew Wilton
January 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Fishing-Boat in Rough Water, Seen from Above 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-fishing-boat-in-rough-water-seen-from-above-r1149800, accessed 20 May 2024.