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Joseph Mallord William Turner Waves Breaking on Shore with a Sailing Boat 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Waves Breaking on Shore with a Sailing Boat’ 1802
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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Recto:
Waves Breaking on Shore with a Sailing Boat 1802
D04216
Turner Bequest LXXI 21
Pencil and white chalk on wove paper prepared with a reddish brown wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 21’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Numbered by Finberg as folio 21 of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as folio 28. The drawing is a continuation of that on folio 27 verso (D04215).

David Blayney Brown
April 2003

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Waves Breaking on Shore with a Sailing Boat 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-waves-breaking-on-shore-with-a-sailing-boat-r1133777, accessed 25 May 2013.