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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Two-Masted Boat ?1792-3

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Two-Masted Boat’ ?1792-3
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Two-Masted Boat ?1792–3
D40242
Pencil on thin white card, 215 x 248 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue,1 this slight sketch shows a two-masted boat with sails set, seen from above as though from the top of a cliff. The boat is very likely the same as that shown in a gorge on the recto of this sheet (D00390; Turner Bequest XIII P).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

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See A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.I, p.39.

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Two-Masted Boat ?1792–3 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-two-masted-boat-r1141139, accessed 16 April 2024.