J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ship in Distress c.1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ship in Distress’ c.1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Verso:
A Ship in Distress circa 1805
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Turner Bequest LXXXVII 34
Pen and ink over pencil on cream laid paper, 118 x 185 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘34’ top right, inverted
Stamped in black ‘LXXXVII 34’ top right, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Although Finberg implies otherwise, this very slight sketch, drawn with the sketchbook inverted, has no direct connection with Turner’s picture The Shipwreck (Tate, N00476),1 for which see Introduction to the sketchbook.

David Blayney Brown
January 2006

1
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).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Ship in Distress c.1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, January 2006, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-ship-in-distress-r1139189, accessed 19 April 2024.