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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Thames sketchbooks c.1804-14 > Greenwich Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Diagrams of Sails c.1808

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Diagrams of Sails’ c.1808
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 37 Verso:
Diagrams of Sails circa 1808
D06793
Turner Bequest CII 37a
Pencil on white wove paper, 76 x 115 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘the Gibs | ... on the | Reef but not on the ...’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted.

David Blayney Brown
March 2007

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Diagrams of Sails c.1808 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2007, 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-diagrams-of-sails-r1130886, accessed 16 April 2024.