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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Tour of Yorkshire 1816 > Yorkshire 6 Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Soldiers in a Boat c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Soldiers in a Boat’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 13 Recto:
Soldiers in a Boat c.1816
D11608
Turner Bequest CXLIX 13
Pencil on white wove paper, 93 x 149 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil with colour notes, ‘R’ (three times) and ‘W’
Inscribed in red ink ‘13’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘CXLIX 13’ bottom, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The same boat heavily laden with soldiers appears on folio 12 recto (D11607). The present sketch includes a detail of the figure recorded there in the stern, with uniform jacket and shako, and another of a shako to the right. The same subject is recorded on folio 16 recto (D11611). For general notes on the series of unidentified subjects to which this sketch belongs see folio 2 recto (D11597).
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David Hill
October 2008

How to cite

David Hill, ‘Soldiers in a Boat c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, October 2008, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2013, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-soldiers-in-a-boat-r1143753, accessed 24 April 2024.