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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Figures Boarding a Boat 1792-3

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Figures Boarding a Boat’ 1792-3
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Figures Boarding a Boat 1792–3
D40243
Turner Bequest XXIII T 1
Pencil on white wove paper, 219 x 279 mm
Watermark ‘J WHATMAN’
Stamped in black ‘XXIII T’ bottom right, with ‘(1)’ added in red ink
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This sheet is the other half of Tate D00394 (Turner Bequest XXIII T 2). The rough sketch is another treatment of the subject on that sheet.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram; inscribed in a modern hand ‘the other half of | XXIII T | framed’.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Figures Boarding a 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-figures-boarding-a-boat-r1141153, accessed 20 September 2024.