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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ship and Boats under Sail c.1815-16

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
A Ship and Boats under Sail c.1815–16
D41532
Pencil on white wove paper, 102 x 160 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a very slight continuation, not recorded in Finberg’s 1909 Inventory,1 of the top of the mast in the ship shown on folio 9 recto opposite (D10785), drawn with the page turned horizontally.

Matthew Imms
September 2013

1
See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.411.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘A Ship and Boats under Sail c.1815–16 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2013, 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-a-ship-and-boats-under-sail-r1147671, accessed 21 November 2024.