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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Masts and Rigging ?at Dieppe Harbour 1824

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Masts and Rigging ?at Dieppe Harbour’ 1824
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 251 Recto:
Masts and Rigging ?at Dieppe Harbour 1824
D20030
Turner Bequest CCXVI 244
Pencil on white wove paper, 78 x 118 mm
Inscribed in blue ink by Ruskin ‘244’ top right
Stamped in black ‘CCXVI–244’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Here Turner studies the masts and rigging of moored vessels; a similar drawing is found on the opposite folio (Tate D20029; Turner Bequest CCXVI 243a). The location may be Dieppe Harbour (see Tate D20032; Turner Bequest CCXVI 245).

Alice Rylance-Watson
June 2014

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Masts and Rigging ?at Dieppe Harbour 1824 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2014, 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-masts-and-rigging-at-dieppe-harbour-r1174825, accessed 24 April 2024.