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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sailing Vessels, off the Coast at Essex, Suffolk or Norfolk c.1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sailing Vessels, off the Coast at Essex, Suffolk or Norfolk’ c.1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
Sailing Vessels, off the Coast at Essex, Suffolk or Norfolk c.1824
D18175
Turner Bequest CCIX 10
Pencil on white wove paper, 115 x 118 mm
Watermarked ‘[al]lee | [18]19’
Inscribed in pencil by Turner ‘W’, ‘D’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner records three vessels sailing off the coast at Essex, Suffolk or Norfolk. The artist has inscribed the letters ‘W’ and ‘D’ at bottom left. A similar scene is depicted on the folio opposite (Tate D18174; Turner Bequest CCIX 9a).
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Alice Rylance-Watson
January 2015

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Sailing Vessels, off the Coast at Essex, Suffolk or Norfolk c.1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sailing-vessels-off-the-coast-at-essex-suffolk-or-norfolk-r1181057, accessed 25 November 2024.