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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1787-1801 Student and master > Scotland 1801-10 > Chester Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Coastal Scene with Figures and a Fishing Boat 1801

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Coastal Scene with Figures and a Fishing Boat’ 1801
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Recto:
A Coastal Scene with Figures and a Fishing Boat 1801
D05073
Turner Bequest LXXXII 1
Pencil on white laid paper, 161 x 256 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘W Turner’ top right, descending vertically
Inscribed in ink and pencil by later hands (see main catalogue entry)
Blind–stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘1’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘LXXXII – 1’ bottom left, descending vertically
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The slight and indistinct horizontal sketch made on this page is perhaps related to Turner’s preparations for the painting Fishermen upon a Lee–Shore, in Squally Weather (Southampton Art Gallery),1 for which there are further studies at the end of this book (folios 75 verso, 76 recto, 77 verso, and inside the back cover; D05155–D05158; Turner Bequest LXXXII 75a, 76, 76a, 77) and elsewhere, for example in the Calais Pier sketchbook (Tate D04986–D04987, D04998–D04999, D05002–D05003; Turner Bequest LXXXI 84–85, 96–97, 100–101).
At the top right, descending vertically in relation to the drawing, is the usual endorsement by the Executors of the Turner Bequest, Henry Scott Trimmer, Charles Lock Eastlake and John Prescott Knight in pen and ink ‘No 147. | H.S. Trimmer’ and in pencil ‘C.L.E.’ and ‘JPK’; descending at the bottom right is a separate pencil note by the National Gallery Keeper Ralph Nicholson Wornum (1812–1877), ‘4 out. | R.N.W–’, apparently referring to that number of leaves having been extracted from the sketchbook.
1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.15–16 no.16, pl.12 (colour).
Technical notes:
There are scattered blue and pink colour smears.
Verso:
Blank

Andrew Wilton
May 2013

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘A Coastal Scene with Figures and a Fishing Boat 1801 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-coastal-scene-with-figures-and-a-fishing-boat-r1178640, accessed 23 April 2024.