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 A Large Vessel Lying on her Starboard Side, with a Small Sailing Boat in Front c.1799-1805

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Large Vessel Lying on her Starboard Side, with a Small Sailing Boat in Front’ c.1799-1805
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 69 Verso:
A Large Vessel Lying on her Starboard Side, with a Small Sailing Boat in Front c.1799–1805
D05038
Turner Bequest LXXXI 136
Black and white chalks on blue laid paper, 436 x 271 mm
Watermarks ‘1794’ and ‘VI’
Inscribed in red ink by John Ruskin ‘136’ top right, upside down
Stamped in black ‘LXXXI–136’ top right, upside down
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, the subject is continued on folio 70 recto opposite (D05039; Turner Bequest LXXXI 137). It is a study for the painting The Shipwreck of 1805 (Tate N00476),1 and is closely related to that on folios 67 verso–68 recto (D05034–D05035; Turner Bequest LXXXI 132–133); for other studies in this book, see under folio 1 verso (D04903; Turner Bequest LXXXI 2).

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

1
Butlin and Joll 1984, p.43 no.54, pl.64 (colour).

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Large Vessel Lying on her Starboard Side, with a Small Sailing Boat in Front 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-a-large-vessel-lying-on-her-starboard-side-with-a-small-r1178242, accessed 24 April 2024.