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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner View Looking out to Sea, with a Headland at the Right and a Distant Vessel 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View Looking out to Sea, with a Headland at the Right and a Distant Vessel’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 90 Verso:
View Looking out to Sea, with a Headland at the Right and a Distant Vessel 1801
D02595
Turner Bequest LIII 90a
Pencil on white wove paper, 162 x 112 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 91 recto opposite (D02596). This is presumably a view on the Firth of Forth near Musselburgh; see folios 40 verso–41 recto; D02530–D02531).
Technical notes:
Although the double–page view appears effectively continuous, a leaf has been cut out leaving a stub between the two halves, and Turner appears to have deliberately avoided drawing all the way to the gutter; see the technical notes in the sketchbook’s Introduction for the various leaves extracted from it.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

Revised by Matthew Imms
April 2015

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘View Looking out to Sea, with a Headland at the Right and a Distant Vessel 1801 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, revised by Matthew Imms, April 2015, 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-view-looking-out-to-sea-with-a-headland-at-the-right-and-a-r1178617, accessed 12 December 2024.