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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Rowing Boat alongside a Pier 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Rowing Boat alongside a Pier’ 1802
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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 22 Recto:
A Rowing Boat alongside a Pier 1802
D04208
Turner Bequest LXXI 16
Pen and brown ink on wove paper prepared with a reddish brown wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 16’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Numbered by Finberg as folio 16 of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as folio 22.
Finberg’s ‘cliffs’ are in fact a pier, perhaps at Calais.
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David Blayney Brown
April 2003

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Rowing Boat alongside a Pier 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2003, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, December 2012, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-rowing-boat-alongside-a-pier-r1133768, accessed 20 May 2013.