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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner A Three-Masted Ship c.1799-1802

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Three-Masted Ship’ c.1799-1802
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 41 Verso:
A Three-Masted Ship c.1799–1802
D04045
Turner Bequest LXIX 41a
Pencil on blue laid paper, 135 x 210 mm
Watermark: Strasburg lily (trimmed)
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the pages turned horizontally and continued on folio 42 recto opposite (D04046), this sketch relates to the gestation of the Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage (‘The Egremont Seapiece’) of 1802 (Tate T03868, on display at Petworth House, Sussex);1 see also folios 39 verso and 40 verso (D04041, D04043).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

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Butlin and Joll 1984, p.17 no.18, pl.14 (colour).

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Three-Masted 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-three-masted-ship-r1177923, accessed 18 April 2024.