'A Shipwreck', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Shipwreck

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

D05392

Turner Bequest LXXXVII 17

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 18 Recto:

A Shipwreck circa 1805

D05392
Turner Bequest LXXXVII 17

Pen and ink over pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘17’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXXVII 17’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Exhibition history

References

Although Finberg implies otherwise, and is followed by Upstone, the sketch has no direct connection with Turner’s picture The Shipwreck (Tate N00476),1 for which see Introduction to the sketchbook. There is a slight offset of blue wash from folio 17 verso (D05391; Turner Bequest LXXXVII 16).

David Blayney Brown
January 2006

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.