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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Margate and Life Drawing c.1830-40 > Gravesend and Margate Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Sail Boats c.1832

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sail Boats’ c.1832
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 6 Verso:
Sail Boats c.1832
D27290
Turner Bequest CCLXXIX 6a
Pencil on white wove paper, 206 x 86 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Blue | [...]fully on my [...]’ bottom centre, inverted
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Turner filled much of this page with sketches of sailing vessels. For more on the coastal subjects in this volume, see the sketchbook introduction.

John Chu
March 2015

How to cite

John Chu, ‘Sail Boats c.1832 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-sail-boats-r1181426, accessed 17 July 2024.