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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1830-35 Annual tourist > Erotica and Improvisations c.1834-6 > Fishing at the Weir Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishermen and Boats c.1834-6

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Fishermen and Boats’ c.1834-6
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 32 Verso:
Fishermen and Boats c.1834–6
D27784
Turner Bequest CCLXXXI 32
Pencil on white wove paper, 79 x 101 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this study appears to show fishermen gathered round small boats drawn up on a beach, perhaps with a sailing boat very loosely indicated beyond. There are various studies of fishermen, fish markets and coastal views in the sketchbook, particularly on adjacent pages at this end, as set out in the Introduction.
The blank recto is numbered by John Ruskin in red ink ‘32’ and stamped ‘CCLXXXI – 32’.

Matthew Imms
April 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Fishermen and Boats c.1834–6 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-fishermen-and-boats-r1149144, accessed 24 April 2024.