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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Steam Boat and Ship's Mast, ?English Channel or Seine River ?1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Steam Boat and Ship's Mast, ?English Channel or Seine River’ ?1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
Steam Boat and Ship’s Mast, ?English Channel or Seine River ?1832
D23591
Turner Bequest CCLII 37a
Pencil on white wove paper, 187 x 114 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A dense collection of shipping occupies a central triangular section of this page. Ascending from left to right, the prow of a squat vessel can be seen, followed by a steamer’s chimney emitting a single wisp of smoke and, at the top, the tall mast of a sail-boat. As set out in the Introduction to the sketchbook Turner studied several harbours in this volume, including Southampton, St Peter Port, and Le Havre in the English Channel, as well as Quillebeuf and Caudebec-en-Caux on the Normandy banks of the Seine.

John Chu
April 2014

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Steam Boat and Ship’s Mast, ?English Channel or Seine River ?1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, 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-steam-boat-and-ships-mast-english-channel-or-seine-river-r1175083, accessed 19 February 2025.