'A Wreck Aground', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

A Wreck Aground

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

D05436

Turner Bequest LXXXVIII 9

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 9 Recto:

A Wreck Aground circa 1805

D05436
Turner Bequest LXXXVIII 9

Pen and ink on cream laid paper, 119 x 189 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘9’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXXVIII 9’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Verso:

Blank

Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘out of 190’. J R’ 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.

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Context

Joseph Mallord William Turner

Sketchbooks

1802-18 Academician and professor

Sketchbooks from the 1800s

Shipwreck (2) Sketchbook

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Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest