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 Small Boats in a Choppy Sea c.1805-9

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Small Boats in a Choppy Sea’ c.1805-9
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 65 Recto:
Small Boats in a Choppy Sea circa 1805–9
D06463
Turner Bequest XCIX 61
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 115 x 190 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘61’ top right
Stamped in black ‘XCIX 61’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Similar sketches of shipping and smaller vessels in choppy waters are on folios 66 and 67 (D06465; Turner Bequest XCIX 62: D06467; Turner Bequest XCIX 63). These rehearse all the elements of Turner’s Thames marines while not being specifically related to any of them.

David Blayney Brown
March 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Small Boats in a Choppy Sea 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-small-boats-in-a-choppy-sea-r1130659, accessed 27 April 2024.