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 > On a Lee Shore (2) Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Fishing Boat being Launched c.1801-2

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Fishing Boat being Launched’ c.1801-2
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 5 Recto:
A Fishing Boat being Launched c.1801–2
D03989
Turner Bequest LXVII 5
Pencil, ink and wash with scraping-out on white wove paper prepared with a grey-blue wash, 118 x 182 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘5’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘LXVIII 5’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This may show the same boat as that in the drawing on folio 3 recto (D03987), though at an earlier moment in the process of launching, with a jetty or breakwater visible to the left and the mainsail not yet set.

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Fishing Boat being Launched c.1801–2 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-fishing-boat-being-launched-r1178294, accessed 23 April 2024.