'Distant Ships', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Distant Ships

From Spithead Sketchbook

Turner Bequest C

Date 1807

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 118 x 187 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D06534

Turner Bequest C 15 v

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 16 Verso:

Distant Ships 1807

D06534

Pencil on off-white wove paper, 118 x 187 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Not noticed or described by Finberg, these slight pencil marks extend the view on folio 17 (D06535), presumably drawn off Portsmouth or Spithead.

David Blayney Brown
May 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

Spithead Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest