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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishermen on the Shore with a Line 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fishermen on the Shore with a Line’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 76 Recto:
Fishermen on the Shore with a Line 1801
D05156
Turner Bequest LXXXII 76
Pencil and ink on white laid paper, 161 x 256 mm
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram below right of centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘76’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 76’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally; the leaf has been rebound with the subject in the same sense as that on the facing page, folio 75 verso (D05155). The group of figures is not immediately related to Fishermen upon a Lee–Shore, in Squally Weather, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1802 (Southampton Art Gallery),1 but the drawing was evidently made in conjunction with those opposite and on folio 77 verso and inside the back cover (D05157, D05158).
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.15–16 no.16, pl.12 (colour).
Verso:
Blank; Finberg’s page ‘76a’1 is not the verso of this leaf, but of folio 77 (D05157), the recto of which is blank and unnumbered.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
See Finberg 1909, I, p.221.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Fishermen on the Shore with a Line 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-fishermen-on-the-shore-with-a-line-r1178725, accessed 06 February 2025.