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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wreck Aground, with Salvagers on a Beach beneath Cliffs c.1805

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wreck Aground, with Salvagers on a Beach beneath Cliffs’ c.1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 10 Recto:
A Wreck Aground, with Salvagers on a Beach beneath Cliffs circa 1805
D05437
Turner Bequest LXXXVIII 10
Pen and ink on cream laid paper, 119 x 189 mm
Inscribed by Turner in ink, illegibly, among figures on shore at right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘10’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A more distant view of the same wrecks and coastline, which Finberg suggested was made at Folkestone, is on folio 19 of the sketchbook (D05445; Turner Bequest LXXXVIII 18).

David Blayney Brown
February 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘A Wreck Aground, with Salvagers on a Beach beneath Cliffs 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-wreck-aground-with-salvagers-on-a-beach-beneath-cliffs-r1139217, accessed 18 April 2024.