'A Man-of-War Firing a Broadside', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Man-of-War Firing a Broadside

From Shipwreck (1) Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXXVII

Date c.1805

Dimensionssupport: 118 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Reference

D05426

Turner Bequest LXXXVII 51

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 13 Recto:

A Man-of-War Firing a Broadside circa 1805

D05426
Turner Bequest LXXXVII 51

Pencil 118 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘51’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘LXXXVII 51’ top left, inverted

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

See note to folio 10 of this sketchbook (D05404; Turner Bequest LXXXVII 29). This subject is continued on folio 12 verso (D05401; Turner Bequest LXXXVII 26), for which also see catalogue note. It appears inverted. When Ruskin broke up the sketchbook he split the two sections of this double-page spread, numbering the other ‘26’, thus breaking up Turner’s study of a single ship. The portions were rejoined when the sketchbook was rebound in 1934.

David Blayney Brown
December 2005

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This catalogue entry is part of: David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012.

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