'Deck and Hull of a Hastings Herring Boat: and View of the Thames and Medway and Sheerness', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Deck and Hull of a Hastings Herring Boat: and View of the Thames and Medway and Sheerness

From River and Margate Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCIX

Date c.1805-8

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 115 x 190 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D06470

Turner Bequest XCIX 64 a

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 68 Verso:

Deck and Hull of a Hastings Herring Boat: and View of the Thames and Medway and Sheerness circa 1805–8

D06470
Turner Bequest XCIX 64a

Pencil on off-white wove paper, 115 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Hastings Herring Boat’ bottom right, and ‘Sheerness Thames & Medway top centre, inverted

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

The two sketches here are quite separate, and drawn with the sketchbook different ways up. The panorama of the Thames and Medway overlooking Sheerness is drawn with the book inverted, and may be further extended on folio 69 (D06471; Turner Bequest XCIX 65). In his picture Margate exhibited at his Gallery in 1808 (Tate T03876; displayed at Petworth House),1 Turner included as foreground narrative a Hastings fishing boat similar to the one sketched here being hailed and intercepted by Margate wherries.

David Blayney Brown
March 2009

Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.59–60 no.78 (pl.88).

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