'Fishing Smacks at Sea', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Fishing Smacks at Sea

From Small Calais Pier Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXI

Date 1802

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 112 x 187 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D04271

Turner Bequest LXXI 69

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 23 Recto:

Fishing Smacks at Sea 1802

D04271
Turner Bequest LXXI 69

Pen and brown ink with smudges of brown wash on wove paper prepared with a grey wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 69’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Numbered by Finberg as folio 69 of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as folio 23.

Verso:

Blank

Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘869’ bottom left, and by a later hand in pencil ‘LXXI p 69 | Sch 328’ top left

David Blayney Brown
April 2003

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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

Small Calais Pier Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest