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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Shipping 1831

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sketches of Shipping’ 1831
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 17 Verso:
Sketches of Shipping 1831
D25671
Turner Bequest CCLXV 17a
Pencil on white wove paper, 96 x 59 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Across this page and the next (folio 18; D25672) are sketches of sailing boats just off the coast of a large town with a church. This town has not been identified, though the same church tower (folio 18) may appear in a sketch on folio 25 verso (D25687). The sketches at the foredge of the page were drawn with the sketchbook turned to the right, and the sketches towards the page gutter, drawn with the book inverted, continue on folio 18. For further sketches of shipping in this sketchbook see folio 10 (D25659).

Thomas Ardill
May 2010

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Sketches of Shipping 1831 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2010, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketches-of-shipping-r1134035, accessed 25 November 2024.