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 > River and Margate Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Ships' Boats Victualling c.1805-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Ships' Boats Victualling’ c.1805-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Recto:
Ships’ Boats Victualling circa 1805–9
D06387
Turner Bequest XCIX 18
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 115 x 190 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Barrels Hampers Smock Frock Red Cloak. Master’s People. Red jacket ...’ below image
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘18’ top right
Stamped in black ‘XCIX 18’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of three very lively, closely-observed sketches of ships being provisioned; the others are a double-spread running from the verso to folio 22 (D06388–D06389; Turner Bequest XCIX 18a–19, and folio 25; Turner Bequest XCIX 22) which has a further inscription detailing the supplies of bread, straw, beef, live sheep and fish. The Navy’s main victualling yards were on the Thames at Deptford and the drawings were probably made there.

David Blayney Brown
March 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Ships’ Boats Victualling c.1805–9 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2009, 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-ships-boats-victualling-r1130579, accessed 24 April 2024.