Joseph Mallord William TurnerA Stranded Ship, with Salvagers Collecting Wreckage in the Surf c.1805

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)’. A similar scene, on the same coastline, is on folio 6 of the sketchbook (D05433).

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Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘148’ bottom left
Inscribed by Arthur Mayger Hind in pencil ‘LXXXVIII 7’ bottom left