'Study for 'The Shipwreck': A Passage Boat in Rough Seas', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Study for 'The Shipwreck': A Passage Boat in Rough Seas

From Shipwreck (1) Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXXVII

Date c.1805

Dimensionssupport: 118 x 185 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D05388

Turner Bequest LXXXVII 13

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 7 Recto:

Study for ‘The Shipwreck’: A Passage Boat in Rough Seas circa 1805

D05388
Turner Bequest LXXXVII 13

Pen and ink on cream laid paper, 118 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘13’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXXXVII 13’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

In Sketches and Drawings Finberg assigns this sketch to the Shipwreck (2) sketchbook (Tate D05428–D05445; D40697–D40700; Turner Bequest LXXXVIII). It anticipates the sailing boat seen from astern in Turner’s picture The Shipwreck (Tate, N00476)1 for which see Introduction to the sketchbook.

David Blayney Brown
December 2005

Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984 , p.43 no.54 (pl. 64).

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