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 > Nelson Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for 'The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory' 1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study for 'The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory'’ 1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
Study for ‘The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory’ 1805
D05476
Turner Bequest LXXXIX 23
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 184 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘23’ top left, inverted
Stamped in black ‘LXXXIX 23’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Finberg evidently failed to spot this very slight sketch, which is a continuation of the sketch on folio 29 verso (D05475; Turner Bequest LXXXIX 22a) for which see catalogue entry. It is a rough outline of the Spanish flagship Santissima Trinidad (for which see folio 21 verso, D05458; Turner Bequest LXXXIX 12) and another ship, perhaps the Bucentaure.

David Blayney Brown
March 2006

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Study for ‘The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory’ 1805 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 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-study-for-the-battle-of-trafalgar-as-seen-from-the-mizen-r1139286, accessed 26 April 2024.