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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Ship ?1792-3

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Ship’ ?1792-3
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
A Ship ?1792–3
D40334
Pencil on white wove paper, 256 x 184 mm
Stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram towards bottom right
Inscribed in pencil ‘XXIII . O’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Not mentioned in Finberg’s 1909 Turner Bequest catalogue,1 this rapid sketch, affected by colour smears and stains, may relate to Turner’s ideas for his picture of Bristol Hot Wells, for which an elaborate study is on the recto of this sheet (D00389; Turner Bequest XXII O).

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

1
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 Ship ?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-ship-r1141141, accessed 19 September 2024.