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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Brig Seen from the Deck of a Boat 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Brig Seen from the Deck of a Boat’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 19 Recto:
A Brig Seen from the Deck of a Boat 1802
D04273
Turner Bequest LXXI 71
Pen and brown ink on wove paper prepared with a grey wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 71’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Numbered by Finberg as folio 71 of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as folio 19.
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Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘871’ bottom right, and in a later hand in pencil ‘140’ at centre

David Blayney Brown
April 2003

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Brig Seen from the Deck of a Boat 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-a-brig-seen-from-the-deck-of-a-boat-r1133765, accessed 19 April 2024.