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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1819-29 Italy and after > French Tour 1821 > Paris, Seine and Dieppe Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Boat, with Figures, beside Large Two-Masted Vessel 1821

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boat, with Figures, beside Large Two-Masted Vessel’ 1821
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
Boat, with Figures, beside Large Two-Masted Vessel 1821
D18532
Turner Bequest CCXI 5
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 189 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXI – 5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
A two-masted vessel is depicted here with a smaller attending vessel pulled up alongside. In the smaller vessel are two figures, one of whom stands facing the larger boat with a coil of rope wrapped round his left shoulder. Turner drew a second sketch of the same two boats and figures from slightly further away opposite on folio 4 verso (Tate D18531; Turner Bequest CCXI 4a). Ian Warrell has suggested that an inscription on that page referring to Théodore Gudin (1802– 1880), ‘the French Painter of Marine’, may relate to the drawing on the present page.1 Alternatively, it may refer to a second, much smaller sketch on that page.
For a list of all Turner’s sketches of shipping in this sketchbook, see folio 1 (Tate D18525; Turner Bequest CCXI 1).

Thomas Ardill
February 2013

1
Warrell 1999, p.25.

How to cite

Thomas Ardill, ‘Boat, with Figures, beside Large Two-Masted Vessel 1821 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, February 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, August 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-boat-with-figures-beside-large-two-masted-vessel-r1146228, accessed 19 April 2024.