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 27 Recto:
Waves Breaking on Shore with a Vessel on the Horizon 1802
D04214
Turner Bequest LXXI 20
Pencil and white chalk on wove paper prepared with grey wash, 112 x 187 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXI 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Numbered by Finberg as folio 20 of this sketchbook, this has since been rebound as folio 27. The drawing is a continuation of that of folio 26 verso (D04213).

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-r1133775, accessed 19 September 2024.