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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sailing Boat c.1789

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sailing Boat’ c.1789
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
A Sailing Boat c.1789
D00039
Turner Bequest II 21a
Pencil and watercolour on white laid paper, 160 x 249 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The boat may relate to the river scene at Old Isleworth noted on the following page, folio 22 recto (D00040). There are blue colour trials along the left and bottom edges of the page.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Sailing Boat c.1789 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-sailing-boat-r1140194, accessed 24 April 2024.