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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Sailing Ship c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Sailing Ship’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 33 Verso:
A Sailing Ship c.1799–1802
D04029
Turner Bequest LXIX 33a
Pencil on blue laid paper, 210 x 135 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this is a slight continuation of the drawing on folio 34 recto opposite (D04030).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Sailing Ship c.1799–1802 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-a-sailing-ship-r1177907, accessed 19 September 2024.