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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > History Painting c.1799-1807 > Calais Pier Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Boats by the Shore c.1802-5

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Boats by the Shore’ c.1802-5
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 9 Verso:
Boats by the Shore c.1802–5
D04919
Turner Bequest LXXXI 18
Black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 271 x 436 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and ‘VI’
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–18’ top left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Made with the page turned horizontally, this study is apparently connected with the watercolour Lake of Geneva, with Mont Blanc from the Lake of about 1805 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven);1 see under folio 8 verso (D04917; Turner Bequest LXXXI 16). There is also a possible link with the large oil painting Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1807 (National Gallery, London);2 see also folios 13 verso, 20 verso and 29 verso (D04927, D04941, D04958; Turner Bequest LXXXI 26, 40, 56).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, p.342 no.370, reproduced.
2
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.53–4 no.69, pl.79 (colour).

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Boats by the Shore c.1802–5 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-boats-by-the-shore-r1178123, accessed 19 April 2024.