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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats and Figures, Brighton c.1828

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats and Figures, Brighton’ c.1828
Folio 4 Verso:
Boats and Figures, Brighton c.1828
D21859
Turner Bequest CCXXXVII 4a
Pencil on white wove paper, 71 x 88 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Ian Warrell has identified this rough study as one of several coastal views of Brighton; it therefore has no relation to Turner’s 1828–9 tour of France and Italy.1 In the lower section of the page, several figures are shown attending to a sailing vessel. Towards the top is a cursory outline of moored boats, denoted with rows of vertical lines.
Precisely when Turner visited Brighton before embarking on his Italian tour remains unclear. See folios 3 verso–5 verso and 61 recto–62 recto (D21857–D21860, D21961–D21963) for views in this sketchbook identified as of the town.

Hannah Kaspar
December 2024

1
Warrell 1997, p.212.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Boats and Figures, Brighton c.1828’, catalogue entry, December 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/boats-and-figures-brighton-r1210417, accessed 17 April 2025.