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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Boat Beached below a Cliff 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Boat Beached below a Cliff’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 16 Recto:
A Boat Beached below a Cliff 1801
D02416
Turner Bequest LII 16
Pencil on coarse blue laid paper, 143 x 111 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘16’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LII-16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This fragmentary sketch must be read as the continuation of the drawing on folios 14 verso–15 recto (D02414–D02415). For the subject, see under D02414.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Boat Beached below a Cliff 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-boat-beached-below-a-cliff-r1178752, accessed 24 November 2024.