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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sailing Boats and Figures at Portsmouth 1844

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Sailing Boats and Figures at Portsmouth’ 1844
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 8 Verso:
Sailing Boats and Figures at Portsmouth 1844
D35699
Turner Bequest CCCLXII 8a
Pencil on white wove paper, 74 x 116 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this slight study shows figures in or beside a small sailing boat, apparently with another hull and masts beyond. Like the other rapid sketches in this book it presumably relates to the arrival of Louis-Philippe, King of the French, at Portsmouth Harbour on 8 October 1844, as discussed in the Introductions to the sketchbook and the overall section.
Compare the similar drawing on folio 10 verso (D35702).

Matthew Imms
September 2016

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Sailing Boats and Figures at Portsmouth 1844 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2016, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2017, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sailing-boats-and-figures-at-portsmouth-r1185647, accessed 17 July 2024.