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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Yachts and a Rowing Boat in Cowes Harbour 1827

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Yachts and a Rowing Boat in Cowes Harbour’ 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 80 Verso:
Yachts and a Rowing Boat in Cowes Harbour 1827
D20722
Turner Bequest CCXXVI 76a
Pencil on white wove paper, 112 x 192 mm
Partial watermark ‘R Bar | 18’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Beyond the cursorily indicated shore and rowing boat with figures in the foreground, yachts are shown moored and under way at the mouth of the River Medina off Cowes, with the East Cowes headland on the right to the east. For more on studies in this sketchbook relating to the regatta events at Cowes from late July 1827 onwards, see the Introduction.

Matthew Imms
November 2015

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Yachts and a Rowing Boat in Cowes Harbour 1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, November 2015, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2016, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-yachts-and-a-rowing-boat-in-cowes-harbour-r1183366, accessed 25 April 2024.