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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for 'Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish' c.1799-1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study for 'Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish'’ c.1799-1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Verso:
Study for ‘Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish’ c.1799–1805
D04927
Turner Bequest LXXXI 26
Black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 271 x 436 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and ‘VI’
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–26’ top left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this is one of a series of studies related to the large canvas that Turner exhibited in 1807 with the title Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish (National Gallery, London).1 For other drawings in the group, see under folio 12 verso (D04925; Turner Bequest LXXXI 24).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.53–4 no.69, pl.79 (colour).

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study for ‘Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish’ c.1799–1805 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-study-for-sun-rising-through-vapour-fishermen-cleaning-and-r1178131, accessed 17 July 2024.