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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study for 'Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish' c.1799-1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study for 'Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish'’ c.1799-1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Study for ‘Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish’ c.1799–1805
D04958
Turner Bequest LXXXI 56
Black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 271 x 436 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and ‘VI’
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–56’ bottom right, ascending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
With the page turned horizontally, this is one of several studies for Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1807 (National Gallery, London);1 see under folio 12 verso (D04925; Turner Bequest LXXXI 24).This one gives in broad terms the relationship of the various elements of the central part of the composition, including the receding water–line and the position of the sun to the left of the man–o’–war in the centre distance.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
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, ‘Study for ‘Sun Rising through Vapour; Fishermen Cleaning and Selling Fish’ c.1799–1805 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-study-for-sun-rising-through-vapour-fishermen-cleaning-and-r1178162, accessed 20 April 2024.