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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Mediterranean Coastal Scene with a Ship being Careened 1796-7

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 52 Recto:
A Mediterranean Coastal Scene with a Ship being Careened 1796–7
D01222
Turner Bequest XXXVII 105
Pencil with grey wash, gouache, and pen and brown ink on blue laid wrapping paper prepared with a red-brown wash, 113 x 93 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXXVII – 105’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The composition continues across folio 51 verso opposite (D01221; Turner Bequest XXXVII 104), under which the subject is discussed.

Andrew Wilton
September 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Mediterranean Coastal Scene with a Ship being Careened 1796–7 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, September 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-mediterranean-coastal-scene-with-a-ship-being-careened-r1149912, accessed 18 September 2024.