'?A Mast and a Bow', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

?A Mast and a Bow

From Nelson Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXXIX

Date 1805

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 114 x 184 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D05455

Turner Bequest LXXXIX 10

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 9 Recto:

?A Mast and a Bow 1805

D05455
Turner Bequest LXXXIX 10

Pencil and black chalk on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
Inscribed in by John Ruskin red ink ‘10’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXXIX 10’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

These sketches are very slight and hard to read. At top left, in pencil, is what appears to be a mast. The black chalk sketch near centre may be of a mast and bow.

David Blayney Brown
March 2006

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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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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Nelson Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest