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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner Diagram of a Boat c.1806-9

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 89 Recto:
Diagram of a Boat circa 1806–9
D06509
Turner Bequest XCIX 85
Pencil on off-white wove paper, 115 x 190 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in blue ink ‘85’ top right
Stamped in black ‘XCIX 85’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
For drawings for a boat in this sketchbook see note to folio 88 verso (D06508; Turner Bequest XCIX 84a). Here, Turner has sketched the hull from above.

David Blayney Brown
March 2009

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Diagram of a Boat c.1806–9 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-diagram-of-a-boat-r1130705, accessed 28 March 2024.