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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Switzerland 1802 > Small Calais Pier Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishing Smacks at Sea 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fishing Smacks at Sea’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 18 Recto:
Fishing Smacks at Sea 1802
D04270
Turner Bequest LXXI 68
Pen and brown ink on wove paper prepared with a reddish brown wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 68’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Numbered by Finberg as folio 68 of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as folio 18.
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Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘872’ bottom left, and in a later hand in pencil ‘LXXI p 681’ top left

David Blayney Brown
April 2003

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Fishing Smacks at Sea 1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2003, 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-fishing-smacks-at-sea-r1133764, accessed 18 April 2024.