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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Marine subjects c.1803-14 > Shipwreck (2) Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Stranded Ship c.1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Stranded Ship’ c.1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
A Stranded Ship circa 1805
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Turner Bequest LXXXVIII 5
Pen and ink on cream laid paper, 119 x 189 mm
Stamped in black ‘LXXXVIII 5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
See Introduction to the sketchbook for Ruskin’s misdating of this sketch in the National Gallery displays to ‘Turner’s period of development (1775–1800)’.
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Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘146’ bottom left
Inscribed by Arthur Mayger Hind in pencil ‘LXXXVIII.5?’ bottom left

David Blayney Brown
February 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Stranded Ship c.1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2006, 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-stranded-ship-r1139212, accessed 23 April 2024.