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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Three-Master Seen from the Port Side c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Three-Master Seen from the Port Side’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Verso:
A Three-Master Seen from the Port Side c.1799–1802
D04041
Turner Bequest LXIX 39a
Pencil and white chalk on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the pages turned horizontally, this study is continued on folio 40 recto opposite (D04042). This and the drawings on the following two openings, which are all views of a three-masted ship seen from the port side, may be ideas for the left-hand vessel in the Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage (‘The Egremont Seapiece’) of 1802 (Tate T03868, on display at Petworth House, Sussex).1

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.17 no.18, pl.14 (colour).

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Three-Master Seen from the Port Side c.1799–1802 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-three-master-seen-from-the-port-side-r1177919, accessed 11 December 2024.