'The 'Victory': Port Side', Joseph Mallord William Turner

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

The 'Victory': Port Side

From Nelson Sketchbook

Turner Bequest LXXXIX

Date 1805

MediumGraphite on paper

Dimensionssupport: 114 x 184 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D05489

Turner Bequest LXXXIX 30

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 18 Recto:

The ‘Victory’: Port Side 1805

D05489
Turner Bequest LXXXIX 30

Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXXIX 30’ bottom right

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

Exhibition history

References

Of the two port-side views of the Victory in this sketchbook – the other being folio 17 (D05487; Turner Bequest LXXXIX 29) – this is the most likely to have been used for Turner’s picture The Victory Returning from Trafalgar, possibly shown at Turner’s Gallery in 1806 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut);1 see Introduction to the sketchbook for a discussion of the picture. The starboard view on folio 16 verso (D05486; Turner Bequest LXXXIX 28a) and the cloudy sky on folio 17 verso (D05488) are also likely to have contributed to the picture.

Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.46–7 no.59 (pl.69).

Verso:

Blank

David Blayney Brown
March 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.