'Two Sailing Vessels', Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775‑1851)

Title

Two Sailing Vessels

From Hesperides (1) Sketchbook

Turner Bequest XCIII

Date c.1805-6

MediumPen and ink on paper

Dimensionssupport: 171 x 262 mm

Collection

Tate

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

Reference

D05793

Turner Bequest XCIII 17 a

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Turner's sketchbooks

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Catalogue entry

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851

Folio 17 Verso:

Two Sailing Vessels circa 1805–6

D05793
Turner Bequest XCIII 17a

Pen and ink and brown wash on white wove paper, prepared with a grey wash, 171 x 262 mm

Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

References

Hill describes this swift outline with dabs of wash as a ‘good example of the sort of work one would expect to result from sketching shipping from a boat bobbing up and down in the Thames estuary’. Most probably it was drawn near Gravesend or Tilbury, along with folio 18, including Gravesend and its church, and 18 verso (D05794, D05795).

David Blayney Brown
October 2007

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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

Hesperides (1) Sketchbook

Tate Collection

Gifts and bequests

Turner Bequest