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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Small Sailing Boat 1798-9

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Small Sailing Boat’ 1798-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
A Small Sailing Boat 1798–9
D01700
Turner Bequest XLII 25
Pen and ink on buff laid paper, 174 x 125 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘25’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLII – 25’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The boat is shown level with the ship on folio 12 verso opposite (D01699; Turner Bequest XLII 24), and the two may form a single composition.

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Small Sailing Boat 1798–9 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, 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-a-small-sailing-boat-r1173896, accessed 17 July 2024.