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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > Margate, London and Surrey c.1829-45 > Marine Dabblers Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Sails; a Landscape c.1829-30

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Sails; a Landscape’ c.1829-30 (Inside front cover of sketchbook)
Inside front cover of sketchbook
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Inside Front Cover:
?Sails; a Landscape c.1829–30
D41105
Pencil on gilt-edged mauve wove paper, 113 x 89 mm
Inscribed by later hands in ink and pencil (see main catalogue entry)
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram towards top left
Inscribed in pencil ‘S104’ top right
Inscribed in pencil ‘CCXLI’ top centre
Stamped in black ‘CCXLI’ top left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The ‘slight sketches’ Finberg detected here are difficult to make out. Towards the bottom appear to be loose pencil marks which might indicate a landscape, while at the top right is a cluster of forms, the clearest of which may be a mast and sail.
The later drawing is partly obscured by the inscription by Turner’s executors, with the book’s original schedule number endorsed by Henry Scott Trimmer, Charles Turner, John Prescott Knight and Charles Lock Eastlake, starting across the top of the page: ‘No 196. This book contains | 20 leaves. – | H.S. Trimmer’. A second signature, ‘C Turner’, follows Trimmer’s towards the top right, with the initials ‘JPK’ and ‘C.L.E.’ towards the top left.
Technical notes:
The page is somewhat stained by the leather overlaps from the front cover and the acidic board over which it is pasted.

Matthew Imms
May 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘?Sails; a Landscape c.1829–30 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sails-a-landscape-r1148354, accessed 21 November 2024.