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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of a Fishing Vessel, Showing the Detail of the Upper Mast c.1799

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of a Fishing Vessel, Showing the Detail of the Upper Mast’ c.1799
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 30 Recto:
Study of a Fishing Vessel, Showing the Detail of the Upper Mast c.1799
D02276
Turner Bequest XLIV 30
Black chalk on white laid paper, 150 x 121 mm
Part watermark ‘Gater’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘30’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XLIX – 30’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is a continuation of the slight sketch on folio 29 verso (D02275). For similar studies on adjacent pages, see under folio 25 verso (D02269).

Andrew Wilton
March 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study of a Fishing Vessel, Showing the Detail of the Upper Mast c.1799 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-study-of-a-fishing-vessel-showing-the-detail-of-the-upper-r1174148, accessed 19 April 2024.