'A Ship in Distress: Arithmetic (Inscription by Turner)', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Ship in Distress: Arithmetic (Inscription by Turner)

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

D05380

Turner Bequest LXXXVII 5

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 3 Recto:

A Ship in Distress: Arithmetic (Inscription by Turner) circa 1805

D05380
Turner Bequest LXXXVII 5

Pen and ink on cream laid paper, 118 x 185 mm
Inscribed by Turner in black ink with accounts (see main catalogue entry), bottom left, running vertically
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘5’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXXVII 5’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The accounts are as follows:

25
12
--
37

With others on folios 2 and 30 verso (D05378, D05425; Turner Bequest LXXXVII 3, 50) they must relate to subscriptions to Charles Turner’s mezzotint after Turner’s picture The Shipwreck (Tate N00476).1 See also the lists of subscribers on folios 1 verso, 2 verso and 5 verso (D05377, D05379, D05399; Turner Bequest LXXXVII 2, 4, 24), and Introduction to the sketchbook for the picture.

David Blayney Brown
December 2005

Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984 , p.43 no.54 (pl. 64).

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