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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner An Island in the Severn with a Ruined Chapel; Fishermen Pulling their Boats Ashore 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘An Island in the Severn with a Ruined Chapel; Fishermen Pulling their Boats Ashore’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
An Island in the Severn with a Ruined Chapel; Fishermen Pulling their Boats Ashore 1798
D01652
Turner Bequest XLI 21
Pencil on white wove paper, 282 x 457 mm
Watermark ‘1794 | J Whatman’
Inscribed in pencil ‘21’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLI – 21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The island is that shown in D01651 (Turner Bequest XLI 20). Another view of it occurs in D01661 (Turner Bequest XLI 28a).
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Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘An Island in the Severn with a Ruined Chapel; Fishermen Pulling their Boats Ashore 1798 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 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-an-island-in-the-severn-with-a-ruined-chapel-fishermen-r1173268, accessed 23 November 2024.