'A Stranded Ship', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Stranded Ship

From Shipwreck (2) Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXXVIII

Date c.1805

MediumPen and ink on paper

Dimensionssupport: 119 x 189 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D05430

Turner Bequest LXXXVIII 3

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 3 Recto:

A Stranded Ship circa 1805

D05430
Turner Bequest LXXXVIII 3

Pen and ink on cream laid paper, 119 x 189 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXXVIII 3’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Exhibition history

References

See Introduction to the sketchbook for Ruskin’s misdating of this sketch in the National Gallery displays to ‘Turner’s period of development (1775–1800)’. This is perhaps the same wreck as in folios 1 and 2 (D05428, D05429), evidently beginning to break up as wreckage washes up in the surf while figures watch from the beach.

Verso:

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Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘144’ bottom left
Inscribed by Arthur Mayger Hind in pencil ‘LXXXVIII.3?’ bottom left

David Blayney Brown
February 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.