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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Waves Breaking on Shore with a Vessel on the Horizon 1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Waves Breaking on Shore with a Vessel on the Horizon’ 1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 26 Verso:
Waves Breaking on Shore with a Vessel on the Horizon 1802
D04213
Turner Bequest LXXI 19a
Pencil and white chalk on wove paper prepared with a grey wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 19a’ bottom left
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Numbered by Finberg as folio 19a of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as folio 26 verso. The subject continues across folio 27 (D04214), where the vessel appears. Bold marks in chalk indicate crests of waves.

David Blayney Brown
April 2003

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Waves Breaking on Shore with a Vessel on the Horizon 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-waves-breaking-on-shore-with-a-vessel-on-the-horizon-r1133774, accessed 25 April 2024.