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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Small Sailing Boat c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Small Sailing Boat’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 39 Recto:
A Small Sailing Boat c.1799–1802
D04040
Turner Bequest LXIX 39
Pencil on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘39’ top right, ascending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXIX-39’ top right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the pages turned vertically, this extremely slight study is continued on folio 38 verso opposite (D04039).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Small Sailing Boat 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-small-sailing-boat-r1177918, accessed 20 September 2024.